may then force managers to improve the productivity of the firm in order to ensure survival. While this hypothesis has … competition shocks. We find that import competition leads to productivity increases in family-managed firms that are initially … unproductive. Productivity improvements are driven by family management as opposed to family ownership or non-managing family …

Total Factor Productivity (TFP), the empirical evidence on agglomeration externalities rests on measures obtained using firm … suggests that the revenue productivity advantage of denser areas is mainly driven by higher prices charged rather than …-level differences in productivity across space …

Using a unique plant-level dataset we examine total factor productivity (TFP) growth and its components, related to …

Why do cities differ so much in productivity? We document that most of the measured dispersion in productivity across … US cities is spurious and reflects granularity bias: idiosyncratic heterogeneity in plant-level productivity and size …

-13 on firm-level productivity in France, Italy and Spain. We show that relying on a single break date in 2008 misses both …-level productivity negatively, high-leverage firms suffer more from financial constraints only in Italy, when they are relatively small … productivity …

productivity in the rest of the economy. To separate exogenous gains in ICT from other technological progress, we use the relative …

infrastructure on economic performance in terms of gains in profits, cost savings, as well as in terms of productivity growth … productivity growth reveals that the economic performance could be enhanced by investing in infrastructure capital …

, cloud usage is expected to increase the productivity of firms, as it allows them to quickly customize the IT they require to … IT investment in any sectors, it does significantly improve labor productivity for firms in manufacturing and in …

suggests a negative effect on total factor productivity. Using newly collected longitudinal data on pensioners, we quantify … pensioner-worker ratio decreases factor productivity by 5-6%. The effect is stronger when production is labor intensive and …