productivity of firms. However, there is less consensus about the underlying mechanism at work. While trade papers focus on access … leads to productivity increases, but only for firms that were already highly productive before. The evidence on import … competition is weaker. If anything, initially low-tech firms manage to increase their productivity in response to increased …

towards international best practice levels of productivity and quality. The report is based on a survey of nine car …

exporting and TFP growth, is mixed. We use a UK panel data set with firm-level information on exporting and productivity. Our …Case study evidence suggests that exporting firms learn from their clients. But econometric evidence, mostly using … they learnt from other sources) in the past are more likely to then have productivity growth. This suggests some support …

This paper estimates the impact of road improvements on firm employment and productivity using plant level longitudinal …, but not the employment of existing firms. We also find effects on labour productivity and wages at the firm level …

Studies of firm-level data have shown that there is a huge dispersion of productivity across firms even when industries … productive. The formers’ convergence could therefore constitute an important part of productivity growth at the macroeconomic … which can explain it. Productivity convergence was stronger for labour productivity than for total factor productivity. But …

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 …

We use a new industry-level dataset to quantify the role of ICT in explaining productivity growth in the UK, 1970 … productivity growth in the market sector. Econometric evidence also supports an important role for ICT. We also find econometric …

markets explain both productivity differences and firm density. Estimating structural model parameters is simple and relies on … model, we find that labor markets which provide cost advantages explain substantial differences in firm productivity …