We use firm-level data for 15 countries and 13 manufacturing sectors to estimate firm-level productivity parameters and … to establish representative country-sector-specific empirical productivity distributions. We use these distributions … of technology in shaping international trade flows. We find that, on average, absolute advantage measured as productivity …

This paper analyses the effect of innovation on the well-established productivity-export association in the literature …. Here, we argue that actively innovative firms have a higher productivity, which make them more likely to become exporters … further, which may facilitate future productivity. We use the micro-data from two waves of Swedish Community Innovation Survey …

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 …

Value Added and Net Income of farms, as well as indicators regarding factor productivity, highlighting the relationship … between productivity, farm typology and farm size. EUROSTAT and European Commission statistics based on FADN survey from the … correlated with labour productivity. Improving the efficiency of production factors should contribute to reducing the disparities …

. 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 …