account deficits and investment rises. Fourth, the strength of the relative price appreciation following sector productivity …

Empirical studies analysing productivity effects of inward FDI in Latin America (LA) are inconclusive. We argue that … FDI to generate productivity effects differs across sectors. For these reasons and because sectoral FDI intensities vary … significantly among LA countries and change over time, we investigate the productivity effects of FDI in eight different sectors …

the Solow model towards a wide function that collects conditioning factors of labour productivity, measured by R & D …

This paper examines the impact of environmental regulation on the productivity of manufacturing plants in the United … productivity of being in a county with higher environmental compliance costs is relatively small and often not statistically …

relationship between the margins of trade and firm productivity, both across firms and within firms over time. In addition, we … and the value of CAT exports responds differently to variation in firm productivity and trade costs than does the export …