Using data from 11 EU countries, the paper investigates the impact of scale economies on labour productivity in … persons have a significantly lower level of labour productivity than the rest of the business-services industry. Two factors … has a significant and positive impact on its labour productivity. We derive some policy implications from our findings. …

Management, Supply Chain Management). We investigate the complementarities in joint adoption and the productivity effects of … results are more diverging for the estimation of complementarities at the adoption stage than for the productivity effects of …

its exports, as well as (ii) the relationship between the export prices of a firm and its productivity. The paper extends … costs. There are three key findings. First, there exists a positive relationship between firm productivity and export prices … because the choice of higher-quality inputs is associated with higher productivity. Second, tighter credit constraints faced …

European business services has witnessed about two decades of virtual productivity stagnation. The paper investigates … indicator for the effectiveness of market selection. We use a DEA method to construct the productivity frontier by sub … lack of import penetration. The results suggest that policy reform and more market openness will have positive productivity …