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 …

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

In this paper, we explore whether information from firm-level data can improve forecasts of aggregate productivity … growth. We generate firm-level productivity measures and aggregate them into time-series components that capture within …-firm productivity and the productivity contribution of reallocation. We show that these components improve aggregate total factor …

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

This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm …-country differences in key economic outcomes, such as productivity or output per capita, to differences in policies and institutions that … determinants of productivity at the firm-level and the evolution of the distribution of productivity across firms within each …