and producer surplus by five to ten percent, but average productivity losses are significantly smaller because most inputs …

results suggest reformed incentives for third-party auditors can improve their reporting and make regulation more effective …

We estimate the rate of total factor productivity growth in Indian manufacturing industry for the period 1973-1992, and … it ignores the additional capital formation made possible by an increase in productivity and therefore understates … productivity's true importance. Our estimates suggest that the understatement may be quite large, and that one might better ask if …

-level panel data to assess the effect of distortions in land rental markets on agricultural productivity. We provide empirical … rentals have substantial positive effects on agricultural productivity: an efficient reallocation of land increases … agricultural productivity by 38 percent on average and by more than 50 percent in states with highly distorted rental markets. Both …

are frequent, often large, weakly correlated across teams, and which substantially reduce team productivity. Together …

reflect misallocation which hinders aggregate productivity. But differences in measured average products need not reflect … downward trend in allocative efficiency over 1978-2013 …

Which managerial skills, traits, and practices matter most for productivity? How does the observability of these …, like attention, autonomy, and control, are important for learning-by-doing as well as for overall productivity, but are not …

to be more vertically integrated. To quantify the impact of these distortions on aggregate productivity, we construct a … that enforcement frictions lower aggregate productivity to an extent that is relevant on the macro scale …

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 …

understand the determinants of changes in plant productivity in 2000-2003. During this period there was a 35 percent increase in … powerful incentives to undertake such investments …