We generate and analyze data pertinent to the role of caselaw in England's economic development during the Industrial … between development-promoting and development-hindering areas of law …

We adopt a spatial econometric approach to estimate intra- and inter-industry productivity spillovers in total factor … productivity transmitted through input-output relations in a sample of 13 OECD countries and 15 manufacturing industries. Both R …

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 …

Global value chains have fundamentally transformed international trade and development in recent decades. We use … firms position themselves in global production lines and how this evolves with productivity and performance over the firm …

We generalise the traditional development-accounting framework to an open-economy setting. In addition to factor … endowments and productivity, relative factor costs emerge as a source of real-income variation across countries. These are shaped … “residual” productivity required to explain the observed per-capita income differences by more than one half …

-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 …