This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm …-country differences in key economic outcomes, such as productivity or output per capita, to differences in policies and institutions that … determinants of productivity at the firm level and the evolution of the distribution of productivity across firms within each …

of productivity have been low in many domestically oriented sectors and consumer welfare has suffered under high prices …

competition in a number of sectors, resulting in high prices, weak innovative activity and inefficient resource allocation …

conducting a review of 33 studies from 26 countries around the world, and provide nine findings. Export boosting policies are …

The correlation between a firm’s size and its productivity level varies considerably across OECD countries, suggesting … that some countries are more successful at channelling resources to high productivity firms than others. Accordingly, we … examine the extent to which regulations affecting product, labour and credit markets influence productivity, via their effect …

the micro forces that matter for aggregate productivity growth focusing on six issues: costs to reallocating labour and … capital, the influence of firm ownership and political connections, informality, the allocation of talent across the economy … for macro productivity and addressing them requires a wide combination of policies. …

age and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … manufacturing industries in Germany using newly available, unique data. We find concave age-productivity profiles and a negative … paribus lower level of productivity in firms with a higher share of female employees does not go hand in hand with a lower …