We study the impact of intersectoral and interregional trade linkages in propagating disaggregated productivity changes … of measured TFP, GDP, and employment to regional and sectoral productivity changes. We find that the elasticities vary …

occurred in Finland in the early 1990s. We find that the sharp drop in real GDP over the period 1990-93 was driven by a … combination of a drop in total factor productivity (TFP) during 1990-92 and of increases in taxes on labor and consumption and … increases in government consumption during 1989-94, which drove down hours worked in Finland. We attempt to endogenize the drop …

Recent research suggests that much of the cross-firm variation in measured productivity is due to differences in use of … longitudinal earnings records for their employees to study the relationship between productivity, management, worker ability, and … and firm-level productivity in Germany. In our preferred TFP estimates only a small fraction of this correlation is …

productivity in several thousand establishments located in these regions. To organize the discussion, we present a new model of …

localized spillover effects of the new parks on local incumbent firm productivity, the growth of retail activity close to the …

In this chapter we analyze immigration and its effect on urban and regional economies focusing on productivity and …

economic predicament. With an aggregate labour productivity of 55% relative to the rest of the country, both are true transfer …

early 90s to drive a Japanese productivity slowdown. The model can reproduce the observed decline, relative to trend of Ramp …

productivity shocks raise income dispersion, lower the price elasticity of demand, and increase imperfectly competitive firms …