-level productivity evolution and the equilibrium market configuration. A counterfactual experiment reveals that a 15% R&D subsidy …

Smoke from massive wildfires blanketed Indonesia in late 1997. This paper examines the impact this air pollution …,600 missing children in Indonesia (1.2% of the affected birth cohorts). Prenatal exposure to pollution largely drives the result … (particulate matter) had on fetal, infant, and child mortality. Exploiting the sharp timing and spatial patterns of the pollution …

and Germany, and thereby assess the impact of increased pollution abatement capital regulation on productivity growth. Our … the productivity growth slowdowns experienced by most industrialized countries during that decade.The contention is that … expenses incurred to satisfy these regulations, such as investment in pollution abatement capital, is unproductive in terms of …

Between 1990 and 2008, air pollution emissions from U.S. manufacturing fell by 60 percent despite a substantial … suggest that the implicit pollution tax that manufacturers face doubled between 1990 and 2008. These changes in environmental … regulation, rather than changes in productivity and trade, account for most of the emissions reductions …

In many countries, unreliable inputs, particularly those lacking storage, can significantly limit a firm's productivity …. We estimate the losses in productivity due to factor-neutral and factor-biased effects of electricity scarcity. Our …. Finally, we find that these productivity changes, while costly to firms, led to small reductions in carbon emissions …

firms in Indonesia. We consider two leading hypotheses: (1) public sector enterprises are inefficient due to monitoring … sector ownership has no independent impact on productivity growth. The finding that ownership per se does not matter, but …

down production. This paper asks whether foreign owners are more likely to close plants than domestic owners. In Indonesia … for plant size and productivity, we find that foreign plants are significantly more likely to close than comparable …

establishments with minority and majority ownership differ in terms of productivity levels? Secondly, does the degree of spillover … labor productivity and that domestic establishments benefit from spillovers. However, the degree of foreign ownership does … neither affect the level of labor productivity in foreign establishments, nor the degree of spillovers …

We estimate the aggregate productivity gains from reducing barriers to internal labor migration in Indonesia … attract workers. We find modest but important aggregate impacts. We estimate a 22% increase in labor productivity from … removing all barriers. Reducing migration costs to the US level, a high mobility benchmark, leads to an 8% productivity boost …