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 …

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 …

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 …

This paper studies the cross-border health and productivity effects of alcohol taxes. We estimate the effect of a large … cut in the Finnish alcohol tax on mortality, alcohol related illnesses and work absenteeism in Sweden. This tax cut led to … the Finnish border are compared to changes in other parts of northern Sweden. We use register data where micro level data …

We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the …

productivity growth than other firms, including other host country suppliers of multinationals. These findings provide first …

's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey data which provides direct measures for innovations and firm … export and innovation activities to become substitutes although they are generally natural complements …

innovation on firm survival and firm productivity, which constitute the two main channels through which innovation drives growth …-linearity and volatility in the gains from R&D/innovation, particularly in terms of its effects on firm survival and productivity … perspectives that inform the empirical models allow for heterogeneity in the effects of R&D/innovation on firm survival and …