This study disentangles the effects of outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) and export on the productivity of … OFDI has a significant positive impact on firm productivity, but that the productivity effect of just export is … insignificant. A complementarity exists between OFDI and export in improving firm productivity. Further, the effects of OFDI and …

foreign ownership and plant productivity. To control for the possible endogeneity of the FDI decision, a difference … context, is the ability to follow the timing of observed changes in productivity and other aspects of plant performance. The … results suggest that foreign ownership leads to significant productivity improvements in the acquired plants. The improvements …

rates have fallen, suggesting that the creative destruction process has lost some of its vitality. Meanwhile, productivity … growth has slowed. Some believe that lower entry and exit rates partly explain the weaker productivity growth. However, the … information about, or Granger-cause, future productivity? We do not find significant evidence that entry rates Granger …

productivity estimates through semi-parametric techniques, we find that changes in domestic firms' TFP are positively related to …

firms might both intentionally and unintentionally influence the productivity, financing and export performance of local … within production chain in the Czech Republic are analyzed. -- foreign direct investment ; productivity ; corporate finance …

and sheds light on the effects of productivity growth. On the basis of a Geometric Brownian motion, three different … productivity scenarios are considered (no growth, deterministic growth, uncertain growth) and opposed to each other. The … introduction of productivity growth increases the likeliness of first time market entry through FDI. If the firm is confronted with …

separately. The results showed a diametrically opposing impact of productivity and profitability on the takeover likelihood. This … ; multinational firms ; productivity …

no productivity improvements for the period 2007 to 2009. This evidence contradicts existing empirical studies for … Germany which find significant productivity improvements and no changes in terms of employment. These findings are of …