' productivity. This effect is larger for those firms with access to bank credit and investment opportunities than for firms that …. The relevant parameters indicating a positive effect of bank credit to productivity are consistent between estimation …

This paper assesses the productivity growth contributed by the dynamics of exporting firms using firm-level production … proposed by Melitz and Polanec (Dynamic Olley-Pakes Productivity Decomposition with Entry and Exit, 2015), which allows them to … decompose the change in aggregate productivity into contributions of surviving firms, entering firms and exiting firms. The …

The manufacturing sector is an important source of productivity growth and exports. Manufacturing firms are generally … known about the productivity performance of the sector and its drivers in South Africa. The recent availability of firm …-level tax administration data has made it possible to measure and analyse the productivity of manufacturing firms in South …

The productivity of firms is, at least partly, determined by a firm's actions and decisions. One of these decisions … endogenous response of revenue-based and quantity-based productivity to a change in layers: a firm reorganization. We show that … as a result of an exogenous demand or productivity shock that makes the firm reorganize and add a management layer …

This paper examines the interaction between productivity growth, firms’ monopolistic market power, and workers’ wage … study the correlation of the estimated parameters and markups with the firm-level productivity growth. Second, the paper …

to improve their establishment level productivity relative to a peer control groups of firms. We find no evidence that … productivity after going private, there is little evidence of difference-in-differences efficiency gains relative to peer groups of … peer groups. Our findings cast doubt on the view that public markets cause listed firms to make sub-optimal, productivity …

the impact of power outages on firm productivity in East Africa considering the effect of generator ownership in general … factor productivity and a mitigating effect of self-generating during power outages of approximately the same size …. Furthermore, I find that self-generating in general reduces productivity due to the idle capital effect of unused generators …

Measures of institutional quality are strong predictors of cross-country differences in income and productivity. The …

investigate productivity effects for a given firm resulting from the import or export of intermediate inputs by domestic upstream … productivity. Further, our results highlight two common, but important, misspecification biases: ignoring the dynamic nature of … productivity and estimating a value-added instead of a gross-output production function …