We study the productivity of US owned plants in the UK. Using a new dataset that identifies foreign and domestic MNEs …

exporting and TFP growth, is mixed. We use a UK panel data set with firm-level information on exporting and productivity. Our … they learnt from other sources) in the past are more likely to then have productivity growth. This suggests some support …

Empirical evidence suggests that trade liberalization increases firm productivity. This paper offers a novel … tasks the closer they are to their core competencies, this outsourcing increases firm productivity. Moreover, I also …

shared compensation practices have had higher productivity than other firms, but the effects vary among programs, suggesting …

characteristics and efficiency as the main determinants of their productivity. The application of this analysis to the European market … shows that productivity differences among flag carriers could explain the governments' different views about deregulation at …

This paper examines the relationship between foreign ownership and productivity, paying particular attention to two … productivity than foreign multinationals, but the difference is less stark in the service sector than in the production sector, and …

aggregation problem introduces a bias into standard measures of firm productivity. We develop a theoretical model of heterogeneous …

enhancing the assignment of workers to jobs in the face of firm productivity heterogeneity and skill-biased technological change …. It shows that in order to do so policy needs to be a function of the properties of the firm’s productivity distribution … emerging from the analysis is that the degree of firm productivity heterogeneity, in terms of skewness and variance, matters …

structured practices for performance monitoring, target setting and incentives enjoy greater productivity and profitability …

across productivity, volatility and financial wealth. We show that this endogenous distribution is crucial to understand … export and productivity dynamics after a trade liberalization. In particular, the calibrated model predicts that financing … negligible net effect on the number of exporting firms, reduce the aggregate productivity gains induced by trade liberalization by …