productivity. I find that early scanners increased a store’s labor productivity, on average, by approximately 4.5 percent in the …

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 …

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 …

This paper examines whether the productivity of U.S. business establishments is related to the extent to which their … multinationals possess proprietary assets that confer a productivity advantage over their domestically-oriented rivals, and that this … productivity advantage are able to absorb the costs and overcome the risks of operating in a wide range of foreign countries, from …

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

’ 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 …

-level total factor productivity for a large number of plants. We characterize time series properties of plant-level idiosyncratic … shocks to productivity, taking into account aggregate manufacturing-sector shocks and industry-level shocks. Plant … volatility of the idiosyncratic plant-level shocks to those of aggregate productivity shocks estimated from aggregate data. We …

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 …

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 …