of business dynamism that contributed substantially to US productivity and job growth. There are, however, some …

We use plant output and input prices to decompose the profit margin into four parts: productivity, demand shocks, mark … the impact of productivity, and other market fundamentals, on plant exit. A dynamic simulation that compares the … distribution of productivity with and without the trade reform shows that improvements in market selection from trade reform help …

reallocation. A distinct literature describes a slowdown in the pace of aggregate labor productivity growth. We relate these … patterns by studying changes in productivity growth from the late 1990s to the mid 2000s using firm-level data. We find that … diminished allocative efficiency gains can account for the productivity slowdown in a manner that interacts with the within …

reallocation depends on (a) the dispersion of idiosyncratic productivity shocks faced by businesses and (b) the marginal … marginal responsiveness of employment growth to business-level productivity has weakened. The responsiveness in the post-2000 … in the 1990s. Counterfactuals show that weakening productivity responsiveness since 2000 accounts for a significant drag …