Productivity in Russia has fallen steadily over the past 15 years. This paper explores micro-level data to understand … the contribution of individual firms to aggregate productivity. Overall, firm-level data corroborate the decline in … aggregate productivity and a widening productivity gap against several European countries. They also show that the gap between …

. Competition, governance, human capital and informational frictions help account for the variation in management …

Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) to assess the effect on performance of ownership, competition, export orientation and the … variables and endogeneity that plague studies in this area. We find that foreign ownership and competition have an impact on …

plant's placement within the productivity distribution. Appreciations of the local currency expose domestic plants to more … competition from abroad as export opportunities shrink and import competition intensifies. As a result, smaller less productive … plants are forced from the market, which truncates the lower end of the productivity distribution. For surviving plants …