that are implicit in previous firm-level productivity estimation approaches. We use Belgian firms production data to …

How can a country improve the productivity growth in its business sector and reach its growth potential? Sweden during …

The productivity of firms is, at least partly, determined by a firm's actions and decisions. One of these decisions … endogenous response of revenue-based and quantity-based productivity to a change in layers: a firm reorganization. We show that … as a result of an exogenous demand or productivity shock that makes the firm reorganize and add a management layer …

This paper examines the interaction between productivity growth, firms’ monopolistic market power, and workers’ wage … study the correlation of the estimated parameters and markups with the firm-level productivity growth. Second, the paper …

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

decisions, increased productivity, and higher exit rates. Our empirical analysis, using a novel dataset and instrumental … annual productivity growth, and a 3.6% points higher probability of exit for firms with binding employment targets. Our …. Additionally, an alternative policy of productivity investment subsidies proved costly and less effective in the short term. …

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 …

capital damage and labour displacement, rather than productivity losses, are the primary channels through which flooding …

productivity change. The model implies that (i) the so-far untreated effect stems from firms' planned efficiency responses to the … competitive environment and that (ii) a suit-able proxy to productivity is investment interacted with a sector-level competition …-effects estimation and remedying commonly suspected biases. Whereas productivity change is measured consistently, scale economies are not …