efficiency-based productivity growth rates to exceed observed productivity growth in the slowdown period of 1974 - 1995 …

regulation, rather than changes in productivity and trade, account for most of the emissions reductions …

-level productivity in a two-country DSGE model with heterogenous producers and an endogenous dynamic export participation decision. First …

Study of the impact of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) on productivity and market power has been complicated by the … difficulty of separating these two effects. We use newly-developed techniques to separately estimate productivity and markups …-level productivity. We also examine whether M&As increase efficiency through reallocation of production to more efficient plants or …

increased competition from demand shocks in export markets - and the induced product mix reallocations - induce productivity … changes within the firm. We then empirically test for this connection between the demand shocks and the productivity of multi …-product firms exporting to those destinations. We find that the effect of those demand shocks on productivity are substantial - and …

, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this …

model in which technical advances are embodied in new capital, investment will translate directly into productivity gains … growth than the sum of the contributions of parent and affiliate employment, and materials; (2) productivity has boomed since … 1992, due to productivity growth in MNCs with Canadian affiliates; (3) the investment elasticity of productivity growth is …

efficiency. First, treatment firms have higher productivity and quality after controlling for rug specifications. Second, when …