We analyze the influence of monetary policy on firms’ extensive margin and productivity. Our empirical evidence for the …

International trade has been stated as one of the most important mean of improving firms' productivity, being the … contribute to local firm's productivity performance by incorporating better inputs in their production processes. This paper … of manufacturing formal firms in Ecuador, and, the causal relationship between the import decision and firm productivity …

substantial productivity growth, but some evidence of trade discipline on the price-cost margins. A markup premium is however …

This paper studies the impact of size on labor cost and productivity for Italian manufacturing firms. The distributions … of both labor cost and productivity display a wide support, even when disaggregated by sector of industrial activity …. Further, both labor cost and productivity, when considered alone, are growing with the size of the firm. We investigate this …

productivity. The relationship is further shaped by the sector environment as well as intrinsic characteristics of the goods and …

productivity is derived. A semi-parametric approach is applied on a 3-digit level of industrial data over major states during 1998 …-2014 to regress Solow residual (the proxy for productivity) on trade share along with its interaction terms capturing market … productivity. It is argued that the joint effects of market size and competition arising out of trade cannot dominate the adverse …

Plant-level innovation is introduced into an heterogeneous plant setting so that productivity dynamics are endogenous …. When policy distortions are positively correlated with plant productivity, I argue that accounting for plant innovation is … right skew in the distribution over productivity which magnifies TFP losses. Quantitatively, the innovation channel is …