This study estimates the impact of excess precipitation (or the absence of rainfall) on productivity of agricultural … productivity. Overall, we find statistically significant declines in agricultural productivity that is associated with both floods …

We derive exact conditions relating the distributions of firm productivity, sales, output, and markups to the form of … Marginal Revenue): it is necessary and sufficient for the distributions of productivity and sales to have the same form …

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 …

We investigate how changes in firm productivity after M&As are affected by differences in profit taxation between the … M&A and thus inhibit the realization of productivity improvements. Using firm-level data on inputs and outputs of … reduces the subsequent total factor productivity gain. This effect is concentrated in horizontal M&As and less pronounced when …

quantity of education. The new measure has a strong link to productivity with the potential for productivity gains being much … education policy (pre-primary education) on human capital and productivity to demonstrate the usefulness of the new measure for …

This paper assesses the relationship between institutions, output, and productivity, when official output is corrected … output and total factor productivity, and its negative impact on the size of the underground economy. However, once output is … total ("corrected") factor productivity even becomes insignificant. Differences in corrected output must then be attributed …

interactions between MP and trade. According to the model with MP, supply-side productivity shocks contributed to the collapse of … to shocks that affected aggregate productivity and were specific to multinationals in a few key headquarters countries …. The MP links significantly amplified the impact of these shocks on the rest of the world, which had a much greater impact …

-section of data from private schools in India. We use differences in student mark across subjects to identify within …

experienced higher levels of agricultural productivity in 1841 and 1852 as well as more investment in irrigation and more … efficient land use. We trace these increases in productivity to an increase in land inequality associated with the Revolutionary …