An extensive literature on the convergence of productivity between countries examines whether productivity is pulled … use the wide dispersion of productivity across firms to explore convergence to the national frontier. Given this within …

productivity, ii) exporters charge on average higher markups and iii) firms’ markups increase (decrease) upon export entry (exit …). We see these findings as a first step in opening up the productivity-export black box, and provide a potential … explanation for the big measured productivity premia for firms entering export markets. …

, using UK experience as empirical focus. We show that a productivity burst simulation is capable of explaining the …

business sector labour productivity in the major OECD countries. The method implies that the trend is the long-run forecast of … productivity, given all available information; the cycle is thus interpreted as the total excess growth that would be forecasted … beyond `normal' rates of productivity (see Evans and Reichlin (1993a)). Multivariate trends in productivity were estimated …