productivity in the South and aggregate technology used by the South both turn out to be higher …

This paper provides the first estimates of within-industry heterogeneity in energy and CO2 productivity for the entire … U.S. manufacturing sector. We measure energy and CO2 productivity as output per dollar energy input or per ton CO2 … emitted. Three findings emerge. First, within narrowly defined industries, heterogeneity in energy and CO2 productivity across …

We develop and estimate a new model of endogenous growth in bank efficiency and firm productivity in which banks adopt …-good-producing entrepreneurs. In this framework, bank efficiency influences firm productivity by affecting agents' occupational choices, while firm … productivity affects bank efficiency through the relative price of capital goods. We find that increasing technology adoption in …

's adjusted TFP data to identify impulse responses to news shocks about future productivity in a structural VAR. The vintage of …

firm survey from the 1840s, we shed light on the mechanism: upper-tail knowledge raised productivity in innovative …

rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT …-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …

We measure the impact of a drastic new technology for producing steel - the minimill - on the aggregate productivity of … industry's productivity is linked to this new technology, and operates through two distinct mechanisms. First, minimills … third of the increase in the industry's productivity. Second, increased competition, due to the expansion of minimills …