using enterprise data. The GQ project upgraded the quality and width of 5,846 km of roads in India. We use a difference … entry rates and increases in plant productivity. These results are not present for districts located on another major …

aggregate manufacturing productivity on the order of 25% in India and Mexico relative to the U.S … intermediate to India and the U.S. in these respects: the average 40 year old Mexican plant employs twice as many workers as an …

We study the effects of globalization on agricultural productivity across countries. We develop a multi-country general … technologies characterized by factor and input intensity. We evaluate the welfare and productivity gains from reductions in trade …

not with higher productivity or profitability. The evidence suggests that intangible investment is associated with growth … and 'soft' performance objectives, but not with productivity or profitability …

at the micro level typically reduces total factor productivity at the macro level. Quantifying these effects is leading …

, including the distribution of output and productivity across firms and the magnitude of entry and exit flows. It has been argued … market structure, more producer turnover, smaller within-industry productivity dispersion across producers, a smaller … percentage of plants operating at low productivity levels, and smaller productivity differentials between surviving and failing …

Aggregate productivity growth in the U.S. has slowed down since the 2000s. We quantify the importance of differential … productivity growth across occupations and across industries, and the rise of computers since the 1980s, for the productivity … productivity growth, reducing their contributions toward aggregate productivity growth, resulting in its slowdown. We find that …

Beginning in 2004, official statistics display a slowdown in U.S. productivity growth. We show how offshore profit … shifting by U.S. multinational enterprises affects GDP and, thus, productivity measurement. Profit shifting increased in the … mid- 1990s, resulting in lower measured productivity growth. We construct value added adjusted for profit shifting. The …

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 …