the economic environment and their contributions to aggregate productivity growth in the period following the … implementation of the North American Trade Agreement (NAFTA). In all industries, an overwhelming share of aggregate productivity … their export status and provides an explanation for the lackluster average productivity performance of exporting plants …

more likely than other owners to invest in productivity enhancing projects and to vertically integrate firms to capture the …

The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between a firm's R&D activities and its productivity using a …'s productivity, with an overall elasticity of about 0.125; this general result is largely consistent with previous literature in … impact on productivity of their R&D investments, at least as regards top European R&D investors. -- R&D ; productivity …

while there was an increase in the productivity of factor inputs during the 1990s, most of the growth in value added is … value added. -- Productivity ; growth decomposition ; efficiency ; manufacturing …

heterogeneity in productivity and factor prices symmetrically. The strength of the proposed estimator is illustrated by Monte Carlo …

states. -- Brain drain ; technology diffusion ; trade ; productivity growth …

larger productivity gains from trade liberalization than previously thought. -- Technology diffusion ; R&D ; openness ; North-South …