governance and market discipline on productivity growth. We find that firms under concentrated ownership tend to show … significantly higher productivity growth. Financial pressure from creditors influences productivity growth positively, particularly … for firms in financial distress. Regarding market discipline, productivity grows faster when competition on product …

aggregate productivity growth. We focus our attention on foreign firms and small firms for three reasons. First, industrial …-digit level industries for the 1983-2001 period. We decompose productivity growth into its components (structural change … analysis by firm ownership and size allows us to understand the sources of productivity contributions by foreign firms and …

model predicts the impact of different patterns of state ownership and/or political connectedness on firm productivity …, and total factor productivity (TFP) using firm-level data for China between 1998 and 2007. We find, consistent with the …

In this paper we study the productivity-survival link in the U.S. poultry processing industry using the longitudinal … productivity and demand-specific factors on plant survival and ownership change. Second, we analyze the determinants of the firm … ownership change. The effect of physical productivity on the probability of exit or ownership change is generally insignificant …

We explore the role of Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) on Total Factor Productivity (TFP) of domestic firms by drawing …

This paper examines the role of international openness on the change of firm productivity in Southeastern Europe (SEE … higher learning effects. We find that (i) foreign ownership has helped at restructuring and enhancing productivity of local … firms in four out of six countries, (ii) exporting to advanced markets has a larger impact on productivity growth in four …

This paper examines the role of international openness on the change of firm productivity in southeastern Europe (SEE … higher learning effects. We find that (i) foreign ownership has helped at restructuring and enhancing productivity of local … firms in four out of six countries, (ii) exporting to advanced markets has a larger impact on productivity growth in four …

model predicts the impact of different patterns of state ownership and/or political connectedness on firm productivity …, and total factor productivity (TFP) using firm-level data for China between 1998 and 2007. We find, consistent with the …

The purpose of this paper is to estimate the effect of foreign ownership on productivity under reasonable … heterogeneity, simultaneity and measurement errors, foreign ownership has no effect on productivity. Therefore we do not find …