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 …

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 …

specification of TFP is based on a "neo-Schumpeterian" empirical specification in which productivity improvements depend on growth … at the global technological frontier and a catch up term. We assume that regulation can affect productivity growth both … to reduce the productivity performance of firms. The negative effect is particularly strong on firms characterised by an …

productivity of European network firms. Exploiting the variation in the timing and degree of liberalization efforts across … countries and industries, we find that liberalization increased firm-level productivity but had no reallocation impact. Based on … our estimates, the average firm-level productivity gain from liberalization amounts to 38 percent of the average total …

practices of others. That some firms converge relatively slowly to the productivity frontier suggests the existence of factors … that cause them to underinvest in their productivity. In this paper we explore how far higher rates of corporate taxation … affect firm productivity convergence by reducing the after tax returns to productivity enhancing investments for small firms …

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 …