productivity. We investigate these phenomena further by examining the relationship between plant-level productivity and firm …-level R&D. We find that (1) the productivity-enhancing effects of parent firm R&D are diminished by geographic distance from … the research lab and `technological' distance between the product-field focus of the R&D and the plants; (2) productivity …

procyclicality of productivity, and simultaneously predicts large welfare losses from monetary non-neutrality. The key features of …

for any permanent differences in productivity across workers, firms, and job matches. We also compare OLS and instrumental …

through learning by doing. These models imply that increased specialization accelerates productivity growth by more fully … realizing dynamic economies of scale. In order to test the hypothesis that specialization increases productivity growth in LDCs … countries, the index of specialization is positively and significantly correlated with manufacturing productivity growth. We …

We revisit the relationship between foreign investment and productivity of acquired firms. First, we construct a panel … acquisitions after controlling for country and sector trends. The productivity of foreign acquired affiliates increases modestly …

total factor productivity (TFP) of incumbent plants in the same county. Articles in the corporate real estate journal Site … is smaller than the direct increase in productivity …

We estimate the aggregate productivity gains from reducing barriers to internal labor migration in Indonesia … attract workers. We find modest but important aggregate impacts. We estimate a 22% increase in labor productivity from … removing all barriers. Reducing migration costs to the US level, a high mobility benchmark, leads to an 8% productivity boost …

crop production and farm revenues. To investigate the effect of crop biodiversity on crop productivity, we build a … probabilistic model based on ecological mechanisms to describe crop survival and productivity according to diversity. From this …