Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain company and national productivity, or do they … size-weighted average management score. We present a formal model of "Management as a Technology", and structurally … cross-country total factor productivity differences …

. Economic theory suggests that the impact of exchange rates should vary with the degree of exposure to international competition … and with the technology level. This paper contributes by bringing together these two views, both theoretically and … empirically. We show that both the degree of openness and the technology level mediate the impact of exchange rate movements on …

dispersion, and 2) the correlation between within-firm skill dispersion and productivity is positive in industries with higher …

This paper is the first to show theoretically and empirically how firms' production technology affects the choice of … productivity of a firm, the more likely it is to opt for centralized wage formation where it can hide behind less productive firms …

homogenous R&D-based knowledge production function by introducing different types of innovation investments (R&D and technology …-than-expected role is played by technology acquisition in the innovation process; (2) the relative importance of R&D and technology …

We utilize a new survey on Norwegian firms' digitalization and technology investments, linked to population …-wide register data, to show that the pandemic massively disrupted the technology investment plans of firms, not only postponing …

This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the … conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels of 6,634 enterprises in Germany and 14 …-skilled employees and industries in Germany by a more unequal distribution of human capital intensity. Except for low-technology …

productivity and a risky technology with productivity subject to sizeable shocks. Strict EPL makes the risky technology relatively … mechanism, we develop a two-sector matching model where firms endogenously choose between a safe technology with known … less attractive because it is more costly to shed workers upon receiving a low productivity draw. We calibrate the model …