return of 9.7%, followed by 6% to 7% on organizational innovation and a modest 1.4% to 1.8% on R&D in services and …This paper examines whether there are complementarities between investments in ICT, R&D and organizational innovation …, and the effects of different investment profiles on total factor productivity growth on Dutch firm-level data. We estimate …

We study the impact of techies--engineers and other technically trained workers--on firm-level productivity. We first …-skill intensive and are associated with innovation, as well as with technology adoption, management, and diffusion within firms. Using … structural econometric methods, we estimate the causal effect of techies on firm-level Hicks-neutral productivity in both …

-level productivity. We also examine whether M&As increase efficiency through reallocation of production to more efficient plants or …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 …

sources of the growth of output, labor productivity, and total factor productivity. The results show that resource …

heterogeneous firms within an industry. Our analysis suggests that high productivity firms are more likely to adopt AC since they …How will a nation's aggregate urban productivity be affected by climate change? The joint distribution of climate … suffer larger productivity losses when it is hot. Given that the most productive firms produce a disproportionate share of …

with our data, and find large barriers to labor specialization. This setting is close, in terms of aggregate productivity …

The expansion in farm size is an important contributor to agricultural productivity in developed countries, but the … agricultural productivity? We develop a model of heterogeneous farms making cropping choices and investing in productivity … North on farm choices and agricultural productivity. We find that the higher distortions in north Vietnam reduce …

This paper documents the increasing importance of software for successful innovation in manufacturing sectors well …

predicted local trade to predicted frictionless local trade) and the Total Factor Productivity effect of changing incidence. A …

our model, globalization not only affects the distribution of observed productivities but also productivity at the firm …We develop a theory of multiproduct firms to analyze the effects of globalization on the distributions of firm size …, scope, and productivity. Our model explains two puzzles. First, it explains the well-known size-discount puzzle: large firms …