IT investment in any sectors, it does significantly improve labor productivity for firms in manufacturing and in …, cloud usage is expected to increase the productivity of firms, as it allows them to quickly customize the IT they require to …The advent of cloud computing promises to improve the way firms utilize IT solutions. Firms are expected to replace …

Cloud computing enables a shift in the costs of ICT adoption from investment in fixed capital to pay-on-demand services …

instrumental variable strategy that relies on the triggers of the Drug War against potential endogeneity of the violence surge. It …-intensity within firms. It also deters domestic, but not international, trade. The effect of the violence shock on firms is very …

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

Custom software is distinct from other types of capital in that it is non-rival—once a firm makes an investment in … custom software, it can be used simultaneously across its many establishments. Using confidential US Census data, we document … that while firms with more establishments are more likely to invest in custom software, they spend less on it as a share of …

model predicts the impact of different patterns of state ownership and/or political connectedness on firm productivity …, and total factor productivity (TFP) using firm-level data for China between 1998 and 2007. We find, consistent with the …

minimum wage hikes accelerate the input substitution from labor to capital, reduce employment growth and accelerate total … factor productivity growth-particularly among the less productive firms under private Chinese or foreign ownership, but not …

productivity in the rest of the economy. To separate exogenous gains in ICT from other technological progress, we use the relative … activity leads to an overestimation of the TFP response for all sectors except the leasing sector, where it is strongly …

We investigate the impact of investment in automation-related goods on adopting and non-adopting firms in the Italian … effect on the adopters' employment and on the value-added and average wage, whereas sales and productivity increase after an …

This paper summarises earlier OECD work aimed at quantifying the impact of structural reforms on economic outcomes. It …-factor productivity, capital deepening and employment) for an almost complete set of OECD countries, ii.) non-linear results on how … reforms. It also gives some guidance on how to quantify reforms in OECD and non-OECD countries. It provides mid …