and productivity of firms in designated areas. We use unique panel data from China with information on manufacturing firms …’ production factors, productivity and location, and we exploit temporal and spatial variation in place-based interventions due to … issues that (i) science parks are located in favourable locations and that (ii) high-productivity firms sort themselves in …

How do economic policies and institutions affect job reallocation processes and their consequences for productivity … little relationship to relative productivity across firms and sectors. Since liberalization began, the pace, heterogeneity …, and productivity effects of job flows have increased substantially. The increases occurred more quickly in rapidly …

simultaneity bias in productivity estimates through semi-parametric techniques, we find that changes in domestic firms’ TFP are …

institutions, reforms and (labour) productivity growth in agriculture is analysed within an augmented neo-classical growth model … democratic institutions, have positively contributed to the (labour) productivity growth in former communist countries …