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 …

We investigate the role of workers' and managerial experience as a determinant of firm innovation and productivity in a … innovation and productivity. The effect of managerial experience measured by age on firm performance depends instead on the type … of firm: high age of managers and board members is bad for innovation and productivity growth, while costs and benefits …

The political unification of Italy in 1861 led to the establishment of a single market, by removing the trade barriers … same time, the Kingdom of Italy started a large infrastructure project to spread railways, which were largely confined in … Northern Italy, all over the country. Using tools from spatial econometrics, we find that railways played a positive effect on …

-homothetic case, these indexes are superior both to Fisher s ideal index and to the consumer surplus approximation. …

social outcomes are not well understood. We develop a novel index of ethnic segregation that takes both ethnic and spatial … distances between individuals into account. Importantly, we can decompose this index into indices of spatial dispersion …

interventions? One way is to use survey-based welfare indicators such as the OECD Better Life Index. It invites people to weight a …

whether there is convergence in monetary transmission. The countries included are: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the …