data and a binary instrumental variable to estimate the effect of outsourcing on productivity. …

We investigate the effect of international differences in corporate taxation on the realization of productivity gains … thus mitigate the resulting productivity improvement. Using firm-level data on inputs and outputs of production as well as … of two merging firms reduces the subsequent total factor productivity gain by 4.5%. This effect is less pronounced when …

-segment variation of the estimated effects is mostly driven by firm productivity levels rather than by search frictions or the …

product and process innovation among exporting firms and these innovations have a larger impact on productivity improvement in … than firms that only sell in the domestic market, and, subsequently, have higher rates of productivity growth. The …' productivity growth and incentive to invest in R&D. …

Until today, the question of how digitalisation and, in particular, individual digital technologies affect productivity … analytics (BDA) on labour productivity (LP) at the firm level. We find that a simple binary measure indicating the mere usage of …

In a recent paper, Bloom et al. (2020) find evidence for a substantial decline in research productivity in the U …

new ways of production that may increase productivity. So far, however, only very few studies investigated likely … productivity effects of AI at the firm-level; presumably because of lacking data. We exploit unique survey data on firms' adoption … of AI technology and estimate its productivity effects with a sample of German firms. We employ both a cross …

facilities in Europe jointly with their output, productivity, and other key economic outcomes. To disentangle the influence of … and productivity do not change suggesting that reductions in emissions follow proportional reductions in output rather … productivity and profits of other facilities and firms owned by the acquiring parent company after a change in ownership. …