Despite competition concerns over the increasing dominance of global corporations, many argue that productivity … spillovers from multinationals to domestic firms justify pro-FDI policies. For the first time, we use firm-to-firm transaction … data in a developed country to examine the impact of forming a new relationship with a multinational, and find a TFP …

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

and firm-level productivity in Germany. In our preferred TFP estimates only a small fraction of this correlation is …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 …

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. …