productivity and the reduction in output volatility (known as the Great Moderation). …

We quantify the causal effect of foreign investment on total factor productivity (TFP) using a new global firm … domestic firms, we calculate the aggregate impact of foreign investment on country-level productivity growth and find it to be …

We hypothesize, and test for, a negative effect of the length of the commute on worker’s productivity, by examining …

crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …

being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates the …

This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the … conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels of 6,634 enterprises in Germany and 14 …-technology manufacturing, average innovation performance is higher in all industries in Germany and the innovation performance distributions …

answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation …, and (iii) productivity and growth, relative to the contributions of the entrepreneurs’ counterparts, i.e., the ‘control … very important—but specific—function in the economy. They engender relatively much employment creation, productivity growth …