which governments shape innovation, and dwarf all other public subsidies for innovation. We examine the impact of government … funding for R&D - and defense-related R&D in particular - on privately conducted R&D, and its ultimate effect on productivity …-country differences in private R&D investment are due to cross-country differences in defense R&D expenditures. We also find evidence of …

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

-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 …

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

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 …