of economic growth. It examines this hypothesis by estimating the productivity gain afforded to Brazilian textile firms … regressions on 18 firm-level censuses covering the period 1866-1934, which permit me to decompose total factor productivity growth … accelerated rates of growth of productivity …

We explore how changes in ownership and managerial control affect the productivity and profitability of producers … century, we find a more nuanced picture than the straightforward "higher productivity buys lower productivity" story commonly … gains in capacity utilization that raised both their productivity and profitability levels, consistent with acquiring owner …

We estimate the rate of total factor productivity growth in Indian manufacturing industry for the period 1973-1992, and … it ignores the additional capital formation made possible by an increase in productivity and therefore understates … productivity's true importance. Our estimates suggest that the understatement may be quite large, and that one might better ask if …

The ratio of revenue to inputs differs greatly across plants within countries such as the U.S. and India. Such gaps may … reflect misallocation which hinders aggregate productivity. But differences in measured average products need not reflect …

Which managerial skills, traits, and practices matter most for productivity? How does the observability of these …, like attention, autonomy, and control, are important for learning-by-doing as well as for overall productivity, but are not …

to be more vertically integrated. To quantify the impact of these distortions on aggregate productivity, we construct a … that enforcement frictions lower aggregate productivity to an extent that is relevant on the macro scale …

to raise energy productivity, the amount plants can produce with each unit of energy. Treatment plants, after two years … error 7.3 percent). I assume that the treatment acted only through energy productivity to estimate the plant production … strongly to a productivity shock when plants can adjust these inputs …

decisions. We study consequences of the adoption of energy-efficient LED lighting in garment factories around Bangalore, India …. We combine daily production line-level data with weather data and estimate a negative, nonlinear productivity …, and thus raises productivity, particularly on hot days. Using the firm's costing data, we estimate the pay-back period for …