This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm …-country differences in key economic outcomes, such as productivity or output per capita, to differences in policies and institutions that … determinants of productivity at the firm-level and the evolution of the distribution of productivity across firms within each …

, follows a faster track and depends more on political power than on those policies' potential as engines for productivity … different groups' weight in policymaking, and the effect of the implied unbalance on aggregate productivity. Electoral weight … found that the resulting imbalance of policies damages aggregate productivity. …

productivity of the industrial sector. This policy environment comprises three layers: 1) the trade policy that determines the …

We study how total factor productivity (TFP), energy prices, and the Great Moderation are linked. First we estimate a … negatively affected productivity. This spillover has since disappeared. Second, we show that within the framework of a dynamic … stochastic general equilibrium model, the disappearance of this energy-productivity spillover generates the significantly lower …

firms always have a higher market share, there is no monotonic relationship between firms' productivity level and their … effect. Therefore, the incentive to add more products weakens as productivity rises. This leads to Lemma 3 in Feenstra and Ma …

is increasing in its productivity, with the most productive multinationals choosing not to rely on a foreign partner at …

examine how trade liberalization affects firm and industry productivity, as well as social welfare. We identify four effects … of trade liberalization on productivity: (i) a direct effect through changes in R&D investment; (ii) a scale effect due …

In order to assess the productivity effects of information and communication technologies (ICT), regressions based on …?GMM estimator yields evidence for significant productivity effects of ICT which are substantially smaller though than those …

of an ageing workforce, this paper measures the impact of changes in the age structure of establishments on productivity … methods. We find that establishment productivity increases with the share of employees until the age of 50-55 and only … account endogeneity, time dependencies, or crucial information correlated with age shares and productivity. Large standard …