We use the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys data to analyze the employment of both labor and capital in Indian … relationship to both (i) institutional constraints, and (ii) productivity …

productivity gap" suggests that labor is greatly misallocated across sectors. In this paper, we draw on new micro evidence to ask … to what extent the gap is still present when better measures of sector labor inputs and value added are taken into …

How do innovation and education policy affect individual career choice and aggregate productivity? This paper analyzes … the various layers that connect R&D subsidies and higher education policy to productivity growth. We put the development …

monopoly power. In this economy, measures of total factor productivity (TFP) growth in terms of quantities (the primal) and …

sector ownership has no independent impact on productivity growth. The finding that ownership per se does not matter, but …

empirical finding.Three elaborations to the basic production frontier framework are developed and used to interpret the accident-productivity …

percent increase in operating efficiency, achieved primarily by reducing the frequency and duration of reactor outages. At … average wholesale prices the value of this increased efficiency is approximately $2.5 billion annually and implies an annual …

-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 …