This study analyzes empirically the effects of import competition on firm productivity (TFPQ) using administrative firm … positive incentives for firms to invest in productivity improvement, whereas import competition from middle- and low …. Costly investment in productivity appears feasible reaction to such type of competition and we find no evidence for …

. In the model, firms are heterogeneous in productivity. Selection effect and agglomeration economies caused by … agglomeration increase firms' productivity and decreases industrial entry costs, and factor prices are increased because of … shows that the compositive effect is that the influences of productivity on the latter increase with agglomeration level …

the supply of non-stop flights provided by full-service carriers has a positive impact on the exports of Italian regions …

self-select for ISO by size and productivity as well as by being a supplier of a foreign-owned company in Russia. Then we …

to influence productivity. To this end we estimate plant-level production functions augmented by regional characteristics …

We compute aggregate productivity of three categories of regions, classified by level of urbanization in the … Netherlands, from firm-specific total factor productivity (TFP) measures. TFP measures are estimated by a semi … over the period 1997-2006. We analyse the productivity differentials across urbanization categories by decomposing them …