TY - UNPB

T1 - Productivity and International Firm Activities: What do we know?

AU - Wagner, Joachim

PY - 2011

Y1 - 2011

N2 - This paper summarizes in a non-technical way what we know from empirical studies based on firm-level data about the mutual links between international activities of firms and productivity. It is written with a view to inform policy makers in an evidencebased way. A special focus is on the empirical evidence we have from studies using firm-level data from the Nordic countries. It is argued that this empirical evidence does not provide a sound basis to search for similarities and differences (and their causes) between the Nordic countries, and the empirical results reported cannot qualify as stylized facts that can inform policy makers in an evidence-based way.

AB - This paper summarizes in a non-technical way what we know from empirical studies based on firm-level data about the mutual links between international activities of firms and productivity. It is written with a view to inform policy makers in an evidencebased way. A special focus is on the empirical evidence we have from studies using firm-level data from the Nordic countries. It is argued that this empirical evidence does not provide a sound basis to search for similarities and differences (and their causes) between the Nordic countries, and the empirical results reported cannot qualify as stylized facts that can inform policy makers in an evidence-based way.

KW - Economics

KW - International firm activites

KW - productivity

KW - firm level data

KW - nordic countries

KW - International firm activities

KW - productivity

KW - firm level data

KW - Nordic countries

M3 - Working papers

T3 - Working Paper Series in Economics

BT - Productivity and International Firm Activities: What do we know?

PB - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg

CY - Lüneburg

ER -