Vietnam needs to sustain high labor productivity growth to achieve its aspiration of becoming a high-income economy. Business innovation and digitalization are key for Vietnam to achieve higher firm productivity...
This paper uses merged customs and administrative data from Serbian firms to quantify the impact of neighboring firms’ importing experience on the decision to start sourcing inputs from new markets. The...
This paper proposes a simple and flexible econometric approach to quantify ex-ante the “deep” impact of trade liberalization and the “hard” effects of protection with the empirical structural gravity model...
Coronavirus (COVID-19) shocks operate through many channels, but the magnitude and who is more affected is hard to predict. The COVID BPS survey measures the impact of shocks on firms’ sales and employment...
This report provides the latest picture of the linkages between foreign and domestic firms, using new survey data on their sourcing and sale patterns. It explores the extent of linkages between Moldovan...
As part of their commitments under the World Trade Organization's Agreement on Trade Facilitation, many developing countries are set to adopt risk management, a strategy for selecting import shipments...
Vietnam reacted early to the spread of Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) by imposing social distancing measures and mobility restrictions, culminating in a national lockdown in April 2020. In order to understand...
Vietnam reacted early to the spread of Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) by imposing social distancing measures and mobility restrictions, culminating in a national lockdown in April 2020. In order to understand...
This Technical Note describes the evaluation of EU support to innovation in Poland. The aim is to measure the effectiveness of support measures in the 2007-2013 perspective, demonstrate impact at the firm...
Serbia spends relatively large amounts on state aid programs, many of which will have to be phased out or restructured to comply with EU laws. There is room to restructure the existing programs to target...
A ‘Smarter Europe’ is a top priority of the European Union (EU), the core of which is innovation, economic transformation, and more competitive small and medium enterprises (SMEs). These themes account...
This note is organized as follows. The first part describes the methodology behind the functional analysis. The second part presents the aggregate results of the analysis based on data from 2 national...
This note examines the relationship between the presence of foreign firms and total factor productivity (TFP) growth of domestic firms (called ‘FDI, Foreign Direct Investment, spillovers’) in Serbia over...
This note examines the relationship between the presence of foreign firms and TFP growth of domestic firms (called FDI spillovers) in Serbia over 2005-2016 period. The analysis finds evidence of FDI spillovers...