funding for R&D - and defense-related R&D in particular - on privately conducted R&D, and its ultimate effect on productivity … significant productivity gains. …

Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain company and national productivity, or do they … cross-country total factor productivity differences. …

Recent research suggests that much of the cross-firm variation in measured productivity is due to differences in use of … longitudinal earnings records for their employees to study the relationship between productivity, management, worker ability, and … and firm-level productivity in Germany. In our preferred TFP estimates only a small fraction of this correlation is …

economically and statistically significant impacton firm-level productivity and market value. Patent citations contain more … (total factor) productivity and an eight percent increase in market value. As expected patenting and citation information … feeds into market values immediately but appears to have some additional lagged effects of productivity suggesting gradual …

&D knowledge located in the US. The positive influence on total factor productivity is larger if the research of the inventors …

This paper studies the implications of perceived default risk for aggregate output and productivity. Using a model of … credit across firms with heterogeneous productivity. Further, we find that these losses accounted for over half of the … productivity fall between 2008 and 2009, and persisted for smaller (although not larger) firms. …

We present a heterogeneous-firm model in which management ability increases both pro- duction efficiency and product … improving production efficiency and product quality in both countries, but it matters more in China than in the US, especially … causal effects on product quality, production efficiency, and exports. Poor management practices may thus hinder trade and …