, scope, and productivity. In the model, firms are heterogeneous in how well they cope with expanding their product range. The …-discount puzzle" found in the data. Globalization induces a merger wave that leads to an improvement in average productivity. This … improvement is not due to selection effects but rather due to product-level productivity effects. The model predicts that …

productivity. …

We estimate the effect of international trade on average labour productivity across countries. Our empirical approach … empirical grounds. In contrast to the marginally significant and non-robust effects of trade on productivity found previously … productivity. Our finding is that trade works through labour efficiency, while institutional quality works through physical and …

We develop a simple estimator for production functions in the presence of endogenous productivity change that allows us … to retrieve productivity and its relationship with R\&D at the firm level. By endogenizing the productivity process we … as a generalization of the knowledge capital model (Griliches 1979) that has remained a cornerstone of the productivity …

’ hypothesis that foreign research labs located on US soil tap into US R&D spillovers and improve home country productivity. Using … firms’ Total Factor Productivity would have been at least 5% lower in 2000 (about $14bn) in the absence of the US R&D growth …

We investigate the impact of international outsourcing on productivity using plant level data for Irish manufacturing … on productivity is different for plants being more embedded in international markets through exporting or being part of a … outsourcing of services on productivity for firms not operating on the export market. …

labour productivity. We control for different regional and firm characteristics, and we instrument enforcement with the … it is likely to contribute to an improvement in productivity. …

-level productivity, profitability, Tobin’s Q, sales growth and survival rates. Management practices also display significant cross …

included quality, productivity, implementation performance of new technologies, and also more ‘intangible’ effects in terms …

In this paper, I have examined whether exporters benefit by exporting more, and also whether the productivity benefits … account export markets' heterogeneity. I have found that it is only exporting more to developed countries that brings … productivity gains. …