-producing country such as the U.S. is associated with a 0.15% lower level of productivity. Second, technological knowledge has become … more global over the sample period. As a determinant of productivity, foreign R&D has significantly gained in importance …

and labor productivity are all linked to factor endowments, to one where (endogenous) productivity change embedded in …, a country which had relatively poor productivity growth in agriculture and low living standards prior to 1800, was a … productivity after 1898 …

This paper examines productivity differences between firms doing foreign direct investment (FDI) and domestic firms on … the question of causality between productivity and global expansion. Comparing domestic firms and extra-firm exporters of … goods, we find that pre-entry selection is more important than post-market-entry effects. Pre-entry boosts to productivity …

with stores in the United States and Canada. They develop a model of pricing by location and employ a regression …

Canada's international competitiveness has received increasing attention in recent years as exports have fallen short … of expectations and Canada has lost market share. This paper asks whether the Bank of Canada's current effective exchange … rate measure, the CERI, is still an accurate measure of Canada's international competitiveness. Overall, while the CERI …

with stores in the United States and Canada. They develop a model of pricing by location and employ a regression …

factor productivity in a large sample of Italian firms. By splitting the full sample on the basis of the ex-ante likelihood … shocks, provided they affect all firms randomly. Both market power and total factor productivity are estimated by applying …" firms a positive transitory shock to productivity growth rates is observed immediately after the announcement of the reform …

exporting and productivity shows that exporters on average are more efficient than nonexporters. If that is the case we may also …

, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this …