equipment manufacturing is associated with increased, not reduced, productivity dispersion, and every transition economy in our …Recent research maintains that the observed variation in productivity within industries reflects resource misallocation … impact on productivity dispersion of reallocation frictions in the form of costs of entry, operation, and restructuring, and …

This paper investigates the origins of productivity leaders, those that operate close to and help push out the … question we draw upon five decades of U.S. Census of Manufacturing (CM) establishment-level data, tracing the productivity …