In this paper we explore the extent to which firms experience productivity spillovers from clustering using a rich data …-selection and endogenous location choice of firms in an estimation of firm level productivity. Controlling for competition effects … and distinguishing between urbanization and localization economies, we find strong evidence for productivity spillovers …

matched customs-manufacturing firm data used in this study confront this hypothesized link with empirical evidence. Our … evidence for sequential sorting into different export-modes according to firm-productivity: i) only the most productive firms … chinesischer Firmen hinsichtlich des Handels mit Industrie- und Entwicklungsländern. Als Datenbasis verwenden wir gematchte …

In this paper, we examine the effect of transportation infrastructure on the productivity of manufacturing plants. In … manufacturing plant productivity in non-metropolitan counties. The recent introduction of the Korea Train eXpress(KTX) high … 4.6 percent in the productivity of manufacturing plants due to the introduction of the high-speed train. Our analysis …

, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this … uniquely rich and representative data on the unit values of outputs and inputs of Colombian manufacturing plants, we then …

This paper explores the productivity impact of trade, product market and financial market policies over the last decade … of regulation in upstream industries on firm performance in downstream manufacturing industries. This framework allows … investigating the link between these policies and productivity growth depending on how far incumbents are relative to the …

This paper examines how import penetration affects firms' productivity growth taking into account the heterogeneity in … product market regulation measures depending on firms' positions along the global distribution of productivity levels. The … heterogeneous effects of international competition and domestic product market regulation on firm-level productivity growth are …

This paper investigates firm-level dynamics of labour productivity in China's manufacturing sector over the 1998 … destruction" and even less so an MNC-led drive. -- Chinese industrial development ; labour productivity distributions ; catching …-2007. Underlying the aggregate evidence of dramatic growth of labour productivity, one observes a large, even if shrinking, intra …

, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this … uniquely rich and representative data on the unit values of outputs and inputs of Colombian manufacturing plants, we then …

in terms of value added, productivity, profits, product quality, and revenue in the different export destinations. We … remarkable increases in productivity. …