This paper analyses plant entry, total factor productivity growth, average productivity level differentials and … industry productivity and induced plant restructuring among incumbent plants. There is consistent plant heterogeneity across … that entrants adopted competitive post-entry strategies. Total factor productivity growth decomposition shows that the …

of (a) a theoretical framework that accommodates first order features of firm-to-firm network data, (b) a maximum … customers lower production costs and end up larger themselves. The model is estimated using novel micro-data on firm-to-firm …

Analysis of firm-level panel data from three sub-Saharan African economies shows that exporting manufacturers have a … total factor productivity premium of 11-28 percent. The data do not allow testing of whether these premiums are caused by … data, we cannot disentangle its effect on productivity from those of more traditionally recognized channels of …

consisting of resource reallocation, firm entry and exit, and productivity growth within continuing firms is carried out. Our … change shows that the high productivity growth has been mostly from within-firm productivity growth (e.g. the adoption of new …This paper presents one of the first studies of firm demographics in Estonia, particularly, on the processes of firm …

microeconomic and macroeconomic productivity growth. The final section discusses the main empirical findings, the caveats of …

This paper surveys recent empirical studies exploring aggregate productivity growth based on firm dynamics, focusing on …, firm dynamics). After reviewing theoretical explanations and empirical methods for firm dynamics and productivity growth …, the paper looks into major findings from the manufacturing sector under three subsections: firm dynamics, productivity …

. Alternatively, removing barriers between industries and countries would raise EU GDP by at least 25 percent. Firm characteristics … marginal products of capital and labor. We emphasize that some firm characteristics may reflect compensating differentials … due to differences in how the business, institutional and policy environment translates firm characteristics into outcomes …

. Alternatively, removing barriers between industries and countries would raise EU GDP by at least 25 percent. Firm characteristics … marginal products of capital and labor. We emphasize that some firm characteristics may reflect compensating differentials … due to differences in how the business, institutional and policy environment translates firm characteristics into outcomes …

National framework conditions mediate the effect of technological capabilities of firms on their productivity. Although … estimate a multilevel production function with effects of firm's technological capabilities nested in the national framework … conditions. Our results confirm that various facets of firm's technological capabilities and national economic, technological and …