This analysis proposes new measures of rent creation or (notional) mark-up and workers' share of rents on cross-country-industry … assumption, and takes into account that part of firms' rent created in an industry is shared with workers to an extent which can … vary with their skills. Our results are based on a cross-country-industry panel covering 14 OECD countries and 19 …

United States by exploiting an industry-city panel data for the years 1880-1930. We estimate decreasing returns to scale on …

We study the impact of firm level choices of ICT, R&D, exporting and importing on the evolution of productivity and its … “techies”. We develop a methodology for estimating firm level productivity that allows us to measure both Hicks-neutral and … from 2009 to 2013. We find that techies and importing of intermediate inputs raise skill-biased productivity, while imports …

productivity growth, while the older literature focused on average productivity improvements ("learning"). We use comprehensive … role in aggregate productivity gains immediately following the start of India's trade reforms in 1991. However, aggregate … productivity gains during the overall 20-year period from 1985 to 2004 were driven largely by improvements in average productivity …

) definition of aggregate productivity growth, which aggregates plant-level changes to changes in aggregate final demand in the … technologies, one for each 4-digit SIC code. On average we find positive aggregate productivity growth of 2.2% in this sector … for both the theoretical literature on growth and alternative indexes of aggregate productivity growth based only on …

technologies, leading to higher productivity. We propose a model of endogenous selection and innovation in heterogeneous firms that …

market structure, more producer turnover, smaller within-industry productivity dispersion across producers, a smaller …Industry cost and demand conditions can vary across countries leading to differences in industry market structure …, including the distribution of output and productivity across firms and the magnitude of entry and exit flows. It has been argued …

productivity (TFP). In our framework, the correlation between firm size and borrowing costs has no bearing on TFP losses under the …

entry rates and increases in plant productivity. These results are not present for districts located on another major …

) that has been modified to include ICT investment and R&D as the two main inputs into innovation and productivity. We find … that R&D and ICT are both strongly associated with innovation and productivity, with R&D being more important for … innovation, and ICT investment being more important for productivity. For the median firm, rates of return to both investments …