Over the last decade the World Management Survey (WMS) has collected firm-level management practices data across … recent work on management practices. Our preliminary results suggest that about a quarter of cross-country and within …-country TFP gaps can be accounted for by management practices. Management seems to matter both qualitatively and quantitatively …

efficiency. First, treatment firms have higher productivity and quality after controlling for rug specifications. Second, when …

productivity observed in a sample of ten unionized plants. It is argued that this relationship reflects the productivity …

determinants of economic growth or international trade. Estimation generally relies on US proxies for unobservable technological …

the world, each country invests in TFP and internalizes the dynamic effects of its investments, while ignoring any effects … on others. Small symmetric idiosyncratic shocks can lead to large long-run differences in TFP levels and the world TFP …

This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm …-country differences in key economic outcomes, such as productivity or output per capita, to differences in policies and institutions that … determinants of productivity at the firm level and the evolution of the distribution of productivity across firms within each …

Why is agricultural productivity so low in poor countries relative to the rest of the world? Is it due to geography or … constrained economic choices? We assess the quantitative role of geography and land quality for agricultural productivity … geographic regions, we find that low agricultural productivity in poor countries is not due to poor land endowments. If countries …

Economists have shown that large and persistent differences in productivity levels across businesses are ubiquitous … differ in their measured productivity levels. The causes are manifold, and differ depending on the particular setting. They …

provide a microfoundation for aggregate productivity shocks. Existing research has focused on using aggregate shocks to …