leads to changes in incumbent firms’ productivity. We find that platform use increases labour productivity growth in firms … employment. What is more, productivity gains are greater for small firms and firms in the middle of the productivity distribution … in narrowing productivity gaps among firms. Finally, productivity gains are stronger in more dynamic platform markets …

functions together with detailed product-level information on prices and quantities to estimate physical productivity, markups … based on commonly used measures of revenue productivity. In contrast, we measure sizable efficiency gains using measures … that are not affected by pricing heterogeneity, such as marginal costs and physical productivity. Exploiting exogenous …

The aim of this report is to foster a better understanding of past trends in, and drivers of, productivity growth in … the countries of the European Union (EU) and of the interplay between productivity and monetary policy. To this end, a … productivity growth, including within the European System of Central Banks and in the context of the review of the ECB’s monetary …

The paper investigates whether the poor productivity performance of the European business services industry is related … productivity frontier and so obtain the distance of firms to the productivity frontier, using detailed industry-level panel data … distance with the productivity frontier. We find that that most scale advantages are exhausted after reaching a size of 20 …

How trade shocks emanating from a low-wage country affect the productivity of manufacturing plants in other low … from 1998 to 2009. Increased import competition from China leads to an improvement in revenue productivity, and a reduction … revenue productivity of large plants and a 1 percent decrease in the number of products within-plant. However, the impact on …

strong and positive relationship with any measure of productivity. To be specific, the plants at the 90 percentile of … management scores in the sample are 30.3% higher in total factor productivity than those at the 10 percentile …

strong creditor protection for aircraft finance. After this reform, country-level productivity in the aviation sector …

International trade has been stated as one of the most important mean of improving firms' productivity, being the … contribute to local firm's productivity performance by incorporating better inputs in their production processes. This paper … of manufacturing formal firms in Ecuador, and, the causal relationship between the import decision and firm productivity …