This paper develops a general test of factor price equalization that is robust to unobserved regional productivity …

This paper explores the role of knowledge flows and productivity growth by linking direct survey data on knowledge …

Firms that export or, even more so, are part of a multinational enterprise tend to exhibit higher productivity than … organization that one of the main drivers of differences in productivity is differences in knowledge. We examine a new data set of …

This paper explores the impact of immigrants on the imports, exports and productivity of service-producing firms in the … productivity of the firm as well as its export behavior. The first effect can be understood as the re-assignment of offshore … productive tasks to immigrant workers. The second can be seen as a productivity or cost cutting effect due to immigration, and …

HO model, we derive a general test of relative factor price equality that is robust to unobserved regional productivity …

One account of spatial concentration focuses on productivity advantages arising from market size. We investigate this … between producers and suppliers of inputs. Productivity links to a more general form of 'market potential' or Marshall …-Arrow-Romer externalities do not appear to be robust in our data. Landlocked status does not matter for productivity of regions in Japan. The …

Why do cities differ so much in productivity? Using a split-sample IV strategy, we document that up to three quarters … of the large measured dispersion in productivity across US cities is spurious and reflects the "luck of the draw" of … their productivity is only imperfectly correlated with that of older plants, which dominate measured productivity levels …

Why is agricultural productivity so low in poor countries relative to the rest of the world? Is it due to geography or … constrained economic choices? We assess the quantitative role of geography and land quality for agricultural productivity … geographic regions, we find that low agricultural productivity in poor countries is not due to poor land endowments. If countries …

In this chapter we analyze immigration and its effect on urban and regional economies focusing on productivity and …