Does the concept of General Purpose Technologies help explain periods of faster and slower productivity advance in …, Britain, France, Germany and Japan and proceeds to evaluate the hypothesis of a productivity bonus as postulated by many … there was no generalized productivity boost from electrical power diffusion as postulated by many existing GPT models. The …

, and total factor productivity (TFP) using firm-level data for China between 1998 and 2007. We find, consistent with the …Subordination of business to political influence has remains pervasive in China. We construct a Schumpeterian … model predicts the impact of different patterns of state ownership and/or political connectedness on firm productivity …

upgrading in foreign-acquired firms. We reveal substantial productivity gains within foreign-acquired firms and we show that …

robots, and a productivity-enhancing reallocation of labor across firms, away from non-adopters, and toward adopters. …

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

We study the impact of techies-engineers and other technically trained workers-on firm-level productivity. We first …-neutral productivity in both manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. We find that techies raise firm-level productivity, and this … of techies on productivity operates mostly through ICT and other techies, not R&D workers. Engineers have a greater …

productivity. We distinguish AI users that source AI from external providers (AI buyers) from those developing their own AI systems … into AI use. This is not the case for AI developers, for which the positive link between AI use and productivity remains …