-distributed firm productivity and fixed costs of exporting, predicts that, conditional on the fixed costs of exporting, all variation … of firm productivity allows the Melitz model to successfully match the role of the intensive margin evident in the EDD … estimate a generalized Melitz model with a joint lognormal distribution for firm productivity, fixed costs and demand shifters …

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

equilibrium, general-equilibrium effects overturn this result: a monetary expansion increases the investment of high-productivity … their productivity and net worth and face collateral constraints that cause capital misallocation. TFP endogenously depends … firms relatively more than that of low-productivity ones, crowding out the latter and increasing TFP. We provide empirical …

This paper studies the effect of structural change on the historical path of aggregate labor productivity growth for a … that structural change may have on future productivity growth. We document that the observed reallocation of economic … activity since the 1970s towards the service sector has exerted a strongly negative effect on aggregate productivity growth in …

business size in an industry fosters growth in terms of total factor productivity (TFP). The results suggest that the overall …

capital (investment network). For each network, we document a declining fraction of production by goods sectors and a rising … investment production are substitutes, rather than strong complements as suggested by existing work. Hence, resources … endogenously reallocate toward the fastest growing producers of investment. Growth accounting exercises demonstrate that investment …

In a Cournot oligopoly set up with constant marginal cost and linear demand, innovation is rewarding. In this paper we … work with a Cournot oligopoly framework with increasing marginal cost and linear demand and show that innovation may not be … interaction we attempt to capture and explain is the one of technology with the possibility of innovation via the intensity of …