productivity. We do so by developing a quantitative model with heterogeneous firms and international trade where firms can invest … cover the fixed costs of sourcing foreign inputs, which in turn also has a benign impact on measured productivity. Using …&D investment play a key role in explaining firm-level productivity growth. Moreover, the estimated returns to R&D are significantly …

The literature on within-firm organizational change and productivity suggests that firms can make more efficient use of … technologies and that joint adoption leads to higher productivity. Without having introduced complementary organizational … innovations, the adoption of CO2 reducing technologies is associated with lower productivity. …

Do firms have the right incentives to innovate in the presence of productivity spillovers? This paper proposes an …-term wage contracts with their workers, productivity spillovers are fully internalized. If firms cannot commit to long-term wage …

We explore the relationship between innovation activity, productivity, and exports using a panel of Spanish … explaining the positive export-productivity association documented in prior research. For the sample of small innovating firms …, we find no significant differences in productivity levels between exporters and non-exporters. Especially product …

Productivity growth in the United States was considerably faster during 2000-03 than in the boom years of 1995 …-2000. This ebullient productivity performance raises numerous questions about its interpretation and its implications for the … justified on the basis of data through the end of 1999 in their claim that part of the post-1995 productivity growth revival …

the technological frontiers. Furthermore, the negative effect of financial constraints on productivity is amplified as …

we develop has three main features: (i) the recurrent arrival of scientific discoveries that generate productivity gains …