structurally estimate the key parameters of our model to construct counterfactual size, productivity and welfare distributions …

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

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 …

productivity directly, by reallocating resources towards more productive uses, but also indirectly through the effects of increased …

Productivity dispersion across firms is large and persistent, and worker reallocation among firms is an important … source of productivity growth. The purpose of the paper is to estimate the structure of an equilibrium model of growth …

specification of TFP is based on a "neo-Schumpeterian" empirical specification in which productivity improvements depend on growth … at the global technological frontier and a catch up term. We assume that regulation can affect productivity growth both … to reduce the productivity performance of firms. The negative effect is particularly strong on firms characterised by an …