An inventor's own knowledge is a key input in the innovation process. This knowledge can be built by interacting with … and patents. We document key empirical facts on inventors' productivity over the life cycle, inventors' research teams … better inventors are very strongly correlated with higher subsequent productivity. These facts motivate the main ingredients …

substantial impacts on manufacturing productivity from relative increases in county market access as railroads expanded. In …

Metamorphic progress (productivity growth much faster than average) is often driven by Grilichesian inventions of … methods of inventing. For hybrid seed corn, the enabling invention was double-cross hybridization yielding highly productive …

. To understand how these changing firm demographics have affected growth, we decompose productivity growth into the firms …

During the four years 1995-99 U. S. productivity growth experienced a strong revival and achieved growth rates … transport, motion pictures, radio, indoor plumbing, and made the golden age of productivity growth possible. This paper raises … doubts about the validity of this comparison with the Great Inventions of the past. It dissects the recent productivity …

While there is widespread empirical evidence indicating exporting producers have higher productivity than nonexporters … methods, inputs, and product designs from their international contacts, and this learning results in higher productivity for … exporters relative to their more insulated domestic counterparts. Alternatively, the higher productivity of exporters may simply …

productivity growth, and the exit rate leads all three of these. A vintage capital model in which all technological progress is … operational, both output and productivity increase …

The 21st century global decline in productivity growth is not well understood. One possible contributor is a decline in … economic dynamism. We explore the contribution of firm formation and employee movement to productivity using administrative … working proprietors, to study the relationships among entry, worker flows and firm productivity. Entrants are more productive …