While productivity growth in electricity generation is associated with multiple positive effects from an economic and … environmental perspective, measuring it is challenging. This paper proposes a framework to estimate and decompose productivity … estimation based on stochastic non-smooth envelopment of data (StoNED) allows for productivity estimation with few microeconomic …

We investigate productivity and cost pass-through of German manufacturing firms using administrative data from 2001 to … controlling for unobserved productivity shocks and unobserved input quality. Using our parameter estimates, we can compute total … factor productivity, markups and marginal costs. We find no effect of the EU ETS on firm productivity or profits for the …

We study the importance of intangible capital (R&D, software, patents) for the measurement of productivity using firm … of input choice and unobserved productivity shocks. We find a positive output elasticity for research and development (R … output production function reduces productivity dispersion (measured by the 90-10 decile range) on average by 3%, in some …

A detailed decomposition of the sources of the Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth index within an output distance …