international division of labour. We concentrate on the question, to what extent they have caught up with the productivity level of … their Western counterparts of similar size and sector and how this productivity difference is related to changes in their … policy and productivity information for individual manufacturers from both parts of the country. Using a decomposition …

-level total factor productivity growth for Ukraine manufacturing and service sectors in 2000-2005. The estimation is performed for … suggests that significant share of productivity gains occur in the long term, when firms adjust to the international market … confirms that exporting to the more technologically advanced countries results in higher productivity gains due to the access …

The paper empirically assesses microeconomic exporting-productivity nexus using the data for Ukrainian manufacturing … firms for the years 2000-2005. The results of the estimation show that firms with higher total factor productivity (TFP …-entry productivity effect for the firms that enter export markets for the first time (in the t, t+1 and t+2 periods). At the industry …

This paper studies the productivity impact of heterogeneous capital inputs of selected EU-15 member countries and of …

aggregate productivity growth during the socialist and reform periods in six transition economies. Modifying a standard … decomposition technique to better reflect the role of firm entry, we find that reallocation rates and productivity contributions are … very low under socialism. After reforms, they rise dramatically, and productivity contributions greatly exceed those …

This study investigates the impact of foreign bank penetration in Central and Eastern Europe on firm entry. We …

This study investigates the impact of foreign bank penetration in Central and Eastern Europe on firm entry. We …