Firms are key to economic development, and CEOs are key to firm productivity. Are firms in countries at varying stages …, resulting in mismatches that can cause up to a 20% loss in productivity for the mismatched firms. The findings imply that …

, explaining 31% of productivity dispersion and over half of the agricultural productivity gap. The sophistication of widely used … technologies is more relevant for productivity than the most advanced technologies. More sophisticated technologies are appropriate …

We document a Kuznets curve for construction productivity in 20th-century America. Homes built per construction worker … remained stagnant between 1900 and 1940, boomed after World War II, and then plummeted after 1970. The productivity boom from … consistent with an extensive series of key facts about the nature of the construction sector. The post-1970 productivity decline …

We quantify the aggregate, regional and sectoral impacts of transportation productivity growth on the US economy over … as a key input to interregional trade, we find that the calibrated change in transportation productivity had a sizable …

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

"This paper investigates the impacts of cotton marketing reforms on farm productivity, a key element for poverty … productivity in cotton declined. With the improvement of the outgrower scheme of later years, farmers devoted larger shares of land … to cash crops, and farm productivity significantly increased"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site …

productivity growth at the aggregate and firm level during the post-war period. Growth is driven by the development of both (i … variance of aggregate productivity growth is determined mainly by the arrival rate of general innovations. Ceteris paribus, the … increase in firm-level volatility, and a decline in aggregate volatility. The effect on productivity growth is ambiguous. On …

prices and total factor productivity (TFP) with the aim of highlighting data patterns that are useful for evaluating business … run movements in total factor productivity and (ii) such stock prices innovations do not affect U.S. sectoral TFPs …

Firms that export or, even more so, are part of a multinational enterprise tend to exhibit higher productivity than … organization that one of the main drivers of differences in productivity is differences in knowledge. We examine a new data set of …