European new member states of the European Union: the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia. All the three export huge …

German and Austrian firm productivity. Unique matching of data from 1994 to 2003 suggests that tarif reductions raise parent … firm productivity significantly. A ten percentage point decrease in tarif rates can lead to total factor productivity gains …

on German and Austrian firm productivity. Unique matching of data from 1994 to 2003 suggests that tariff reductions raise … parent firm productivity significantly. A ten percentage point decrease in tariff rates can lead to total factor productivity …

productivity and economic reforms. Accordingly, we first compute industry-level productivity growth using advanced econometric … techniques and thereafter ascertain the time frame over which economic reforms impact productivity. The evidence suggests that … productivity growth is not reliably higher after reforms than prior to reforms. In addition, the findings indicate that it is …