values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility …

important in explaining welfare losses from revenue productivity dispersion …

impact on post-entry size, survival, and productivity of startups. Consistent with our organizational capital hypothesis …

summarized to a first order by the current and expected future values of the Solow productivity residual in level and by the …

This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm …-country differences in key economic outcomes, such as productivity or output per capita, to differences in policies and institutions that … determinants of productivity at the firm level and the evolution of the distribution of productivity across firms within each …

We use plant output and input prices to decompose the profit margin into four parts: productivity, demand shocks, mark … the impact of productivity, and other market fundamentals, on plant exit. A dynamic simulation that compares the … distribution of productivity with and without the trade reform shows that improvements in market selection from trade reform help …

Measured productivity growth increased substantially during the second half of the 1990s. This paper examines whether … productivity growth does appear to arise from an increase in technological change. Cyclical utilization raised measured … productivity growth relative to technology growth in the first part of the expansion, but lowered it subsequently. Factor …

Productivity rises in booms and falls in recessions. There are four main explanations for this procyclical productivity … procyclical productivity as an essential feature of business cycles because each explanation has important implications for … utilization and resource reallocations are particularly important in explaining procyclical productivity. We also argue that the …