This paper studies how asymmetric information over inputs affects workers' response to incentives and self-selection at … input quality and worker type. Firm profits increase differentially from high productivity workers, but absenteeism and … and managers shape the response to incentives and self-selection at the workplace. …

trading. Such measures can reduce emissions cost-effectively and create incentives for technological development. There is … been too low to create the incentives necessary to stimulate technological development. This paper empirically analyzes how … the Swedish carbon dioxide tax and the EU ETS have affected productivity development in the Swedish pulp and paper …

Does the matching between workers and jobs help explain productivity differentials across firms? To address this …' careers. At firm level, it features a robust positive correlation with firm productivity, and with managerial turnover leading …

We study the impact of bank credit supply on firm output and productivity. By exploiting a matched firm-bank database … revenues) for a given level of inputs. Our estimates imply that a credit crunch will be followed by a productivity slowdown, as … account for about a quarter of the observed decline in Italy's total factor productivity growth. The results are robust to an …

We study the impact of bank credit supply on firm output and productivity. By exploiting a matched firm-bank database … revenues) for a given level of inputs. Our estimates imply that a credit crunch will be followed by a productivity slowdown, as … account for about a quarter of the observed decline in Italy's total factor productivity growth. The results are robust to an …

consequences of these transformations on firm's productivity, using granular data on firms financial and ownership structure as … major concern from a productivity standpoint: firms displaying higher institutional ownership tend to have higher … productivity levels and growth rates compared to their peers, though the positive relationship tends to vanish when institutional …

of production and correlations with technical changes are measured by Total Factor Productivity as an expression of … Technical Efficiency to assess Total Factor Productivity …

unobserved productivity factor on which firms condition the input demand of the observed inputs. Our model of unobserved …