constructed to answer this question. A union monitors establishments in an industry to learn about their productivity, and decides …

Using plant-level data, I show that the dispersion of total factor productivity in U.S. durable manufacturing is … greater in recessions than in booms. This cyclical property of productivity dispersion is much less pronounced in non … incumbents survive, which results in a more compressed productivity distribution. The resulting higher average productivity in …

those predicted by models of trade with heterogeneous firms. I find that apparent increases in revenue productivity … associated with antidumping duties are primarily due to increases in prices and mark-ups, as physical productivity falls among …

’ productivity through more efficient use of capital and labor. Acquirers significantly reduce capital expenditures, wages, and … reallocation. Moreover, changes in productivity help explain the merging firms’ announcement returns. The combined announcement … returns are driven by improvements in target’s productivity. Targets with greater productivity improvements receive higher …

constructed to answer this question. A union monitors establishments in an industry to learn about their productivity, and decides …

those predicted by models of trade with heterogeneous firms. I find that apparent increases in revenue productivity … associated with antidumping duties are primarily due to increases in prices and mark-ups, as physical productivity falls among …

total factor productivity (TFP) in the Quebec manufacturing sector during the 1985-88 period. Our results show that … productivity growth, while the presence of mandatory prevention programs and of fines for infractions to OSH rules have led to an … increase in productivity growth. Interestingly, this is, to our knowledge, the first result showing that OSH regulation may …

This paper measures factor productivities (and hence total factor productivity growth) directly on the basis of the …

This paper explores the relationship between capital composition and productivity using a unique and remarkably … associated (positively) with current and subsequent years’ multifactor productivity. The link between offices and productivity … between ICT equipment and productivity is robust to a number of controls and appears to be part causal effect and part …

total factor productivity. I examine plant-level data and show that some industries experience countercyclical reallocations … produce less of the total output, but during expansions they produce more. These reallocations cause overall productivity to … rise during recessions, and do not reflect the actual path of productivity of a representative firm over the course of the …