extensive and the intensive margins and the connection between exporting dynamics and plant-level total factor productivity … and account for a small share of gross, industry-level changes in exports, employment, output, and productivity. The … distribution of exports are positively correlated with changes in total factor productivity. Our results suggest that plants face …

It is now stylized that, while the impact of ownership on firm productivity is unclear, product market competition can … be expected to have a positive impact on productivity, thereby making entry (or contestability of markets) desirable … growth in total factor productivity. -- entry ; productivity ; institutions ; regulations ; India ; reforms …

establishments' productivities. Inflation distorts aggregate productivity through firm entry dynamics. The model is calibrated to the … decrease in the steady-state average productivity of roughly 0.5 percent compared to the optimum's steady-state. This decrease … in productivity is not innocuous: it leads to a doubling of the welfare cost of inflation. -- Firm dynamics …

experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition … productivity. Information on the opponent is a promising nudge to raise individuals' awareness towards the complexity of the … productivity distribution of all potential opponents reduces competition failures by more than 50%, (2) information on the …

We study how workers' wages respond to TFP-driven innovations in firms' labor productivity. Using unique data with … highly reliable firm-level output prices and quantities in the manufacturing sector in Sweden, we are able to derive measures … of physical (as opposed to revenue) TFP to instrument labor productivity in the wage equations. We find that the reaction …