productivity. We do so by developing a quantitative model with heterogeneous firms and international trade where firms can invest … cover the fixed costs of sourcing foreign inputs, which in turn also has a benign impact on measured productivity. Using …&D investment play a key role in explaining firm-level productivity growth. Moreover, the estimated returns to R&D are significantly …

increasing in firm productivity while the number of produced products that are exported is weakly increasing in firm productivity … the relationships between firm productivity and the numbers of exported products observed in the data, several demand and …

The literature on within-firm organizational change and productivity suggests that firms can make more efficient use of … technologies and that joint adoption leads to higher productivity. Without having introduced complementary organizational … innovations, the adoption of CO2 reducing technologies is associated with lower productivity. …

firms, and the fact that larger firms supply more products than smaller firms, implies that standard productivity measures … are not independent of demand system assumptions and probably dramatically understate the relative productivity of the …

This paper studies theoretically and empirically why and how labor policies may reduce productivity and employment in …

As a result of debt enforcement problems, many high-productivity firms in emerging economies are unable to pledge … additional resources that flow to high-productivity firms after the reforms. We show that some of these resources do not come … from abroad, but instead from domestic low-productivity firms that are driven out of business as a result of the reforms …

To determine the extent to which capital financing affects the productivity of seed maize growers in Trans Nzoia County … productivity levels at the regional and possibly the national level. …

find that firm markups are positively related to firm productivity and negatively related to the toughness of local …