advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence among all firms as well as a subset of firms near the efficiency … frontier in two economies that represent alternative models of implementing market-oriented development policies: the Czech … Republic and Russia. Using 1992-2000 panel data on virtually all medium and large industrial firms in each country, we find …

In general there is agreement about the positive impacts of R&D on performance of firms measured as productivity …

We examine the relationship between lax monetary policy, access to high-yield bond markets and productivity in the US … higher risk profile. Since the relationship between credit ratings and firm-level productivity is U-shaped, the aggregate … effect on productivity is a priori unclear. Turning to the real economy, we thus analyse whether this additional access to …

existing literature takes the approach of estimating production functions in which the total factor productivity (TFP) of the …

This paper examines whether credit constraints affect Chinese firms’ absorption of productivity spillovers originating …

productivity of locally owned firms in the Czech Republic. To this end, we collect 332 estimates previously reported in journal … results suggest that, as of 2018, a 10-percentage-point increase in foreign presence is likely to lift the productivity of …

productivity of locally owned firms in the Czech Republic. To this end, we collect 332 estimates previously reported in journal … results suggest that, as of 2018, a 10-percentage-point increase in foreign presence is likely to lift the productivity of …