characterizing the extent of heterogeneity within an industry that is robust with regard to extreme values of a few small firms. It … was found that the level of intra-industry heterogeneity is mainly determined by an industries' average technical …

The correlation between a firm’s size and its productivity level varies considerably across OECD countries, suggesting … that some countries are more successful at channelling resources to high productivity firms than others. Accordingly, we … examine the extent to which regulations affecting product, labour and credit markets influence productivity, via their effect …

on productivity, using a large panel of around 6200 firms. The findings of the theoretical literature on this topic are … consortia increases productivity. …

US cities is spurious and reflects granularity bias: idiosyncratic heterogeneity in plant-level productivity and size …Why do cities differ so much in productivity? We document that most of the measured dispersion in productivity across …

This paper examines the impact of local firms' participation in global value chains (GVCs) on productivity by … firm productivity and GVC participation: firms that enter GVCs have high productivity before participating in the GVCs … (selection effect), and only Indonesian firms which entered GVCs had a high productivity growth after joining GVCs (learning …

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. …

industries. Over the same period, productivity gains from reallocation accounted for 50% of European productivity growth and … with changes in productivity and allocative efficiency. This holds across most sectors and countries and supports the …

industries. Over the same period, productivity gains from reallocation accounted for 50% of European productivity growth and … with changes in productivity and allocative efficiency. This holds across most sectors and countries and supports the …

productivity shocks. However, the dispersion of firms’ productivity shocks has decreased too. To enhance our understanding of these …

productivity shocks. However, the dispersion of firms’ productivity shocks has decreased too. To enhance our understanding of these …