This paper contributes to the productivity literature by using results from firm-level productivity studies to improve … forecasts of macro-level productivity growth. The paper employs current research methods on estimating firm-level productivity … to build times-series components that capture the joint dynamics of the firm-level productivity and size distributions …

This paper introduces new estimates of recent productivity developments in the United States, using an appropriate … continued strong performance of U.S. productivity since 2000. We find that the major sectoral players in the late 1990s pickup … were not contributors to the more recent surge in productivity. Rather, striking gains in MFP in the finance and business …

This paper contributes to the productivity literature by using results from firm-level productivity studies to improve … forecasts of macro-level productivity growth. The paper employs current research methods on estimating firm-level productivity … to build times-series components that capture the joint dynamics of the firm-level productivity and size distributions …

Measuring the dispersion of productivity or efficiency across firms in a market or industry is rife with methodological …

productivity directly, by reallocating resources towards more productive uses, but also indirectly through the effects of increased …

This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the … conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels of 6,634 enterprises in Germany and 14 … are more dispersed in the Netherlands. In both countries, we observe non-linearities in the productivity effects of …