Why do cities differ so much in productivity? We document that most of the measured dispersion in productivity across … US cities is spurious and reflects granularity bias: idiosyncratic heterogeneity in plant-level productivity and size …

-border acquisition, show different productivity levels as compared to those firms that have not been acquired. Our identification … firms' balance sheet for the years 2008-2018. We find that cross-border acquisitions decrease the productivity of the … targeted by acquirers originating in emerging market economies also decrease productivity of high-tech target firms. …

Numerous bank productivity studies indicate rapid changes in the structure of the financial services industry and … background of two concepts of performance evaluation – the terms efficiency and productivity, and empirically, the performance … evaluation of banks, i.e., the measurement of the productivity and research results of previous authors’ studies of the European …

factor revenue productivity across firms within an industry could have boosted valued-added 48 percent and 79 percent above …

This paper examines the link between barriers to trade and investment and productivity performance, in the United … a robust determinant of productivity in the long term. Control variables such as spending on R&D and human capital also … range of productivity measures as well as to changes in the sectoral coverage and the set of controls. …

focused on Enlarged Europe. The results show that there exists a positive indirect impact of FDI on productivity and …

(IVC) and corporate venture capital (CVC) investments on the total factor productivity (TFP) of European high …