, 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 …

Why do cities differ so much in productivity? We document that most of the measured dispersion in productivity across … US cities is spurious and reflects granularity bias: idiosyncratic heterogeneity in plant-level productivity and size …

dependence as well as parameter heterogeneity, simultaneously. We then propose the regional productivity network analysis to … examine the diffusion impacts of the capital intensity on the labour productivity in the EU. We apply the proposed approach to …

agricultural investment, larger gender gap in agricultural productivity, and more hierarchical society, are at the root of existing …

(agriculture, manufacturing and services) characterized by different productivity gains and by saturation levels in the demands of …

This paper asks whether increasing productivity in the electricity sector can yield larger long-run GDP gains than …

We study how financial frictions affect firm-level heterogeneity and trade. We build a model where productivity …

China. We demonstrate that drug advertising inspections are used by provincial governments to discriminate against firms …