This paper calculates returns to scale and productivity growth in UK manufacturing establishments in the electronics … productivity growth. We use a matching and difference-in-differences methodology which allows us to construct a reasonable … counterfactual and to determine the post-acquisition changes in RTS and productivity that can be attributed to the incidence of …

This paper studies procyclical productivity growth at the industry level in the U.S. and in three European countries … explain procyclical productivity. However, this correction still leaves one in three U.S. industries with procyclical … productivity. This failure of the model can also be seen in Europe and is mostly concentrated in services industries. …

in labour productivity and the degree of returns to scale. We organize our investigation around five questions that we …

behavior of the primal and dual productivity residuals by allowing for nonconstant returns to scale and imperfect competition …. Likewise, the presence of the quasi-fixity of capital helps to reconcile the behavior of the primal and dual productivity …