This chapter overviews productivity research from an industrial organization perspective. We focus on what is known and … what still needs to be learned about the productivity levels and dynamics of individual producers, but also how these … interact through markets and industries to influence productivity aggregates. We overview productivity concepts, facts, data …

Economists have shown that large and persistent differences in productivity levels across businesses are ubiquitous … differ in their measured productivity levels. The causes are manifold, and differ depending on the particular setting. They …

shift in the composition of productivity growth away from vintage-specific to general growth. This shift has stimulated the …

integrated. These patterns are consistent, however, with an alternative efficiency-based mechanism. Namely, higher productivity … evidence that integrated producers' productivity advantage is tied to improved logistics coordination afforded by large local … local concrete operations have similarly high productivity levels …

) productivity growth, as more productive businesses displace less productive ones. However, this research has been limited by the … productivity measures. If prices reflect idiosyncratic demand or market power shifts, high "productivity" businesses may not be … selection and productivity growth using data from industries where we observe producer-level quantities and prices separately …

Many studies have documented large and persistent productivity differences across producers, even within narrowly … for these differences, by proposing that demand-side features also play a role in creating the observed productivity …. Substitutability increases truncate the productivity distribution from below, resulting in higher minimum and average productivity …

There are tremendous across-plant differences in measured productivity levels, even within narrowly defined industries …, an industry's demand structure may also influence the shape of its plant-level productivity distribution. This paper … productivity distribution is intuitively straightforward. When industry consumers can easily switch between suppliers, it is more …