linkage between channels of international knowledge spillovers and total factor productivity. We distinguish between domestic … contribution of technology transfer to industrial productivity. To account for technological distance, we weight foreign knowledge … mainly drives productivity in the respective sector. -- Knowledge Spillover ; Total Factor Productivity ; Manufacturing …

This paper estimates the effect of international outsourcing of materials and services on productivity in Italian …

championed on grounds of improving productivity, efficiency, and competitiveness. In a developing economy this is a costly … proposition due to capital scarcity, and the effect of technological changes on productivity and efficiency levels have to be … estimated before taking such policies. This paper seeks to estimate trends in Factor Productivity, Technological Progress, and …

traditional view has been that exporting can lead to increased productivity by facilitating access to the global market and, thus …-parametric estimation method to measure firm-level productivity, and examined the contingent impacts of the observed firms' exports on their … productivity. On the one hand, the exporting firms exhibited significantly higher productivity and faster growth than the non …

with and the number of goods traded) and firm productivity using a newly constructed and rich panel data set of German … significantly and positively associated with firm-level productivity both for West and East German firms in cross …-sectional estimations, which is in line with the previous literature. Productivity is higher in firms that import and export more goods and …

with and the number of goods traded) and firm productivity using a newly constructed and rich panel data set of German … significantly and positively associated with firm-level productivity both for West and East German firms in crosssectional … estimations, which is in line with the previous literature. Productivity is higher in firms that import and export more goods and …