may then force managers to improve the productivity of the firm in order to ensure survival. While this hypothesis has … competition shocks. We find that import competition leads to productivity increases in family-managed firms that are initially … unproductive. Productivity improvements are driven by family management as opposed to family ownership or non-managing family …

This study analyzes empirically the effects of import competition on firm productivity (TFPQ) using administrative firm … positive incentives for firms to invest in productivity improvement, whereas import competition from middle- and low …. Costly investment in productivity appears feasible reaction to such type of competition and we find no evidence for …

This paper assesses the potential impact of the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) on firm productivity …. We estimate a stylized version of the neo-Schumpeterian model, which incorporates innovation and productivity catch-up as … two potential sources of firm’s productivity growth, while at the same time accounting for persistent productivity …