examine how physical proximity influences a firm's future productivity and its survival possibility. Our results indicate that … a firm located in a region with a higher median total factor productivity (TFP) gains higher productivity from other … knowledge and to produce more new ideas. Our results also indicate these productivity-enhancing characteristics do not seem to …

corruption on productivity. Corruption is narrowly defined as the occurrence of informal payments to government officials to ease … the day-to-day operation of firms. The effects of this “bribe tax” on productivity are compared to the consequences of red … tax appears to have a negative impact on firm-level productivity, while the effect of the time tax is insignificant. We …

UK productivity stagnated after the Great Recession of 2008-09 and remains about 15 percent below historical trends …. This 'productivity puzzle' is due to a mixture of cyclical and structural effects - the fall is not entirely permanent; and …

. Estimates based on the conditional logit model show a significantly positive relationship between initial labour productivity … probability to export and initial labour productivity is low once firm effects are controlled for. Surprisingly, the impact of … labour productivity on exporting does not differ between micro enterprises and the remaining SMEs (10-249 employees …

-extending health care expenditures should increase with rising productivity and retirement age, while the effects of improvement in …