We argue that social capital as proxied by regional trust and the Rule of Law can improve aggregate productivity …

dynamism, may explain the observed productivity slowdown. We consider the role of nonemployers, businesses without paid … employees, in business dynamism and aggregate productivity. Despite the decline in the growth of employer firms, the total … average annual growth of aggregate productivity of 0.26-0.39%, over one quarter of the productivity growth in the data …

productivity across sectors exhibits weak correlation. While previous work examined production complementarity, our analysis … explores complementarity in information acquisition. Because information about future productivity has a high fixed cost of … production and a low marginal cost of replication, sectors can share the cost to forecast their sector-specific productivity …

Indian manufacturing plants, we show that production and sourcing decisions appear systematically distorted in states with … 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 …

both developed and developing countries. In both country groups, comparative advantage has become weaker: productivity grew …

We quantify foreign direct investment (FDI) spillovers by comparing changes in total factor productivity (TFP) among …

We assess the role of land markets on factor misallocation in Ethiopia--where land is owned by the state--by exploiting … productivity. These effects are nonlinear across farms--impacting more those farms farther away from their efficient operational … scale. The effect of land rentals on productivity is 70 percent larger when controlling for non-market rentals--those with a …

A vast firm productivity literature finds that otherwise similar firms differ widely in their productivity and that … derive largely from studies of manufacturing firms in wealthy countries, and thus have unknown relevance for the world's most …,000 agricultural plots across four countries in Africa to study the size, source, and persistence of productivity dispersion among …

Agricultural productivity growth in sub-Saharan Africa has been a qualified success. Total factor productivity growth … and the rise in agricultural productivity. The case study of Ghana clearly reflects these broader findings …