Productivity and international firm activities: What do we know?
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In: Nordic Economic Policy Review, No. 2, 2011, p. 137-161.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Productivity and international firm activities
T2 - What do we know?
AU - Wagner, Joachim
N1 - ISBN 978-92-893-2295-9
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 evidence-based 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 for searching 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 evidence-based 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 for searching 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, empirical/statistics
KW - international firm activites
KW - productivity
KW - firm-level data
KW - nordic countries
U2 - 10.6027/9789289330282-8-en
DO - 10.6027/9789289330282-8-en
M3 - Journal articles
SP - 137
EP - 161
JO - Nordic Economic Policy Review
JF - Nordic Economic Policy Review
IS - 2
ER -