We study the effect of changes in land tenure, launched by the 1906 Stolypin reform, on agricultural productivity in … allotments. Our estimations suggest that the net effect of the reform on land productivity was positive, mainly due to land … component of the reform decreased land productivity in the short-run, arguably because of transaction costs …

This paper empirically assesses the role of structural and institutional reforms in driving productivity growth across … reforms matter more for increasing productivity growth at the aggregate and sectoral levels for some emerging market and … payoffs, the paper also examines how productivity gains from various reforms evolve over the the short- and medium-term …

differences comes from the differences in total factor productivity (TFP). This paper explores whether barrier to entry is an … more harmful to productivity in the countries with monopolists facing inelastic demand …

suggest that the prospect of patent protection spurred technological progress and increased downstream productivity and …

assess the empirical performance of Ricardo's ideas. We use novel agricultural data that describe the productivity in 17 … the productivity of each parcel of land in all crops, not just those that are currently being grown. This direct … information about relative productivity differences across economic activities allows us to compute, for the first time, the …