-distributed firm productivity, which has become a tractable benchmark. This benchmark model predicts that, conditional on the fixed …-level productivity, fixed costs and demand shifters, and use 'exact hat algebra' to quantify the effects of a decline in trade costs on …

energy market reforms. This study uses manufacturingfirm census data from Ethiopia to identify productivity losses …-10 percent. We found nonlinear productivity losses at different quantilesalong the productivity distribution. Firms at higher …

We show that an increase in aggregate uncertainty-measured by stock market volatility-reduces productivity growth more … using productivity growth for 25 industries for 18 advanced economies over the period 1985-2010-mitigates concerns with …

The Italian economy has been struggling with low productivity growth and bank balance sheet strains. This paper … examines the implications for firm productivity of adverse shocks to bank lending in Italy, using a novel identification scheme …-to-labor ratio, and productivity. The transmission from changes in credit supply to firm productivity relates to labor market …

had a significant negative impact on total factor productivity. Moreover, prefectures that aged at a faster pace … give strong support to the notion that demographic headwinds can have a non-trivial impact on total factor productivity and …

This paper explains in detail the construction of series for productivity in the traded and nontraded sectors for a … panel of 56 countries spanning 1989–2012. The level of productivity in each sector is defined as real value added per worker … more disaggregated industry source data; and (ii) it allows for meaningful comparisons of the level of productivity across …

unemployment rate in this episode stems from two factors: (i) high growth rates of total factor productivity (TFP), experienced …