financial variables of Lithuanian firms. We focus in particular on the issues related to productivity, firm birth and death and … literature: trade participation and firm productivity are strongly positively linked, the 2008 recession has had a cleansing …

Why is it that exporter productivity premia (EPP) differ so widely in size? We take this question to the theory and to … EPPs across sectors, and hence across countries, can be explained by the variation in productivity dispersion, trade costs …

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 …

Productivity growth is largely driven by the reallocation of resources from less productive firms to more productive …

theoretical part, we consider firm heterogeneity in two dimensions; fixed cost as well as productivity. As a result, when a firm … with low productivity engages in exporting, there can also be a higher productive firm facing relatively high fixed cost …. This allows us to resolve the difficulty in interpreting controversial empirical results, for example, whether productivity …

productivity or vice versa? Using matching methods, I find that productivity shocks are followed by significant increases in size … defined by employment. In contrast, size shocks are not followed by productivity gains at the firm level. This finding casts … doubt on the conventional wisdom that aggregate productivity in Spain is driven by a firm size distribution biased towards …

database of comparable productivity indicators built by members of the Competitiveness Research Network (CompNet) using a newly ….g. productivity and size. The database comprises so far 11 countries, with information for 58 sectors over the period 1995-2011. The … results. Among them, it shows that there is large heterogeneity in terms of firm productivity or size within narrowly defined …