productivity in the manufacturing sector, focusing on the interaction between this policy shock and firm and environment … firm productivity. Specifically, reductions in trade protectionism lead to higher levels and growth of firm productivity …, investment climate, and financial development, do not appear to influence the effect of trade liberalization on firm productivity …

measures differences in labor productivity (the Ricardian measure), and the other differences in total factor productivity (the …

tariffs higher up and further down in the value chain depress value added, employment, labor productivity and total factor … productivity to varying degrees. We find no benefits for the sector that enjoys additional protection, yet there is some evidence …

Productivity dispersion across countries has led to several studies on the determinants of firm level productivity and … the role of macroeconomic policies in determining productivity. In this paper, we investigate the effect of fiscal … consolidation on firm level productivity in 12 advanced economies by combining an updated dataset of fiscal consolidation measures …

We provide broad-based evidence of a firm size premium of total factor productivity (TFP) growth in Europe after the …

The Italian economy has been struggling with low productivity growth and bank balance sheet strains. This paper … examines the implications for firm productivity of adverse shocks to bank lending in Italy, using a novel identification scheme …-to-labor ratio, and productivity. The transmission from changes in credit supply to firm productivity relates to labor market …

energy market reforms. This study uses manufacturingfirm census data from Ethiopia to identify productivity losses …-10 percent. We found nonlinear productivity losses at different quantilesalong the productivity distribution. Firms at higher …

Productivity growth in Italy has been persistently anemic and has lagged that of the euro area over the period 1999 … long-term impact of persistent corporate-debt accumulation on the productivity growth of Italian firms and investigates … whether total factor productivity growthvaries with the level of corporate indebtedness. We employ a novel estimation …