aggregation problem introduces a bias into standard measures of firm productivity. We develop a theoretical model of heterogeneous …

The productivity of firms is, at least partly, determined by a firm’s actions and decisions. One of these decisions … endogenous response of revenue-based and quantity-based productivity to a change in layers: a firm reorganization. We show that … as a result of an exogenous demand or productivity shock that makes the firm reorganize and add a management layer …

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 …

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 …

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

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

We argue that China, with its long history, a relatively stable political system, and multiple regime changes, provides … us an opportunity to investigate the political economy of administrative hierarchy. Using prefecture-level panel data and … exploiting regime changes during AD1000-2000, we find that gaining and losing importance in the political hierarchy led to the …

’s political hierarchy. While the literature has discussed the roles of administrative centers, several important questions remain … due to an increase in public employment? We argue that China, with its long history, a centralized political system, and … advantages of the provincial capitals did not persist if they lost their political status, (2) political hierarchy shaped …

. Differences in land productivity, in particular the existence of a core region of high land productivity in northern China, also … argued that “fractured land” was responsible for China’s tendency toward political unification and Europe’s protracted … find that topography alone is sufficient, but not necessary, to explain polycentrism in Europe and unification in China …