In a recent paper, Bloom et al. (2020) find evidence for a substantial decline in research productivity in the U …

-sectional distributions of technological productivity are well-approximated either by the lognormal, Weibull, or a novel “CES … convergence of the true technological productivity distribution to the theoretical limit with n …

We analyze the effect of ICT and R&D on total factor productivity (TFP) growth across different industries in Sweden. R …

Structural change is an important driver of productivity growth at the aggregate level. While previous productivity … to another. We develop an improved productivity decomposition that accounts for both intra-industry and inter … productivity to the industry level. The proposed decomposition is applied to Finland's information and communication technology …

occurrence. Eventually, we relate productivity and innovation slowdowns deriving tables of trends co-movements, weighted by input …A growing number of studies identify a generalized slowdown in labor productivity growth. The very existence of the … of the observed trends. We posit that the composition of aggregate productivity matters. In a nutshell, we make the …

In this paper, we argue that fundamental reforms of the Swedish business sector can explain the remarkable productivity … firms substantially contributed to productivity and employment growth during this period, which suggests that the …

How can a country improve the productivity growth in its business sector and reach its growth potential? Sweden during …

. Our main findings are that, in response to a corporate tax cut: (i) labor productivity increases; (ii) entry increases … findings, we build a New Keynesian model with idiosyncratic firm productivity, and firm entry and exit. Our model features … productivity gains due to selection along both the entry and exit margins in response to the shock. Models with homogeneous firms …