This paper examines the effects of expansionary technology shocks (shocks that increase labor productivity and factor … inputs) as opposed to contractionary technology shocks (shocks that increase labor productivity, but decrease factor inputs … productivity and production inputs. In addition, these shocks trigger different reactions of certain variables, which can help …

We characterize the dispersion of firm-level productivity and demand shocks using Swedish microdata including prices … TFPQ dispersion in recessions. Productivity shocks pass through incompletely to prices and have limited effect on sales … facts, demand dispersion has unambiguously negative effects on output via a "wait and see" channel. Productivity dispersion …

is highly disaggregated at the industry level with an input-output network structure. Measured productivity in the model …-specific, uncorrelated across industries. The bulk of the aggregate fluctuations, including those in aggregate measured productivity, are … data. Our second finding is that about half of the decrease in the cyclicality of measured productivity in the U.S. after …