One of the key goals of trade policy, which includes FTAs, should be the enhancement of productivity in the overall … economy through the improved productivity of the tradable sector. This can be achieved by enhancing the productivity of … existing firms, and eliminating lowproductivity firms to improve overall industrial productivity. This study examines the …

cover essentially all firms in the Finnish business sector, we first document that labor productivity dispersion is very … market equilibrium and whether innovation subsidies can improve industry productivity by mitigating such a tax distortion. …

innovators from high-productivity firms. These findings suggest that innovation subsidies contribute to economic renewal and the …

International literature suggests that productivity growth of the global frontier firms – those in the best five … productivity of the Finnish frontier firms does not diverge from the others to such a degree as in the international comparisons …

employment, especially among young and small companies. Impacts on the productivity are, however, uncertain. Cooperation of … help firms to grow larger but do not improve their productivity. …

This paper analyses the integration of China and India into the global economy. To this end, it presents estimates from … China’s trade intensity is higher than fundamentals would suggest, whereas the converse is true for India. Second, Chinese …, China’s exports of services tend to complement its exports of goods, while India’s exports are growing only in deregulated …

(IPRs) enforcement, with special reference to injunctions in India. It examines how far the courts consider the implications …