Research Summary: Firm size has long been recognized as a source of competitive advantage. However, the disruptions … arising from the knowledge-based global economy are decoupling the link between firm size and profitability. We demonstrate in … disconnect in the relationships between firm size, growth, and financial performance across multiple industries with a long …

Real value-added per employee in U.S. manufacturing fell between 2010 and 2016. Manufacturing accounted for over half … aggregate value-added. While productivity growth fell in almost all three-digit manufacturing industries, almost 40% of the fall … in aggregate manufacturing productivity growth reflected a slower decline of the deflator for computers and electronic …

This paper explores the evolution of the average wage of employees over the life-cycle of a manufacturing plant. The …

Though U.S. manufacturing output recovered more slowly from the Great Recession than historical experience would have … predicted, manufacturing employment, which peaked in 1979, grew between 2010 and 2017. This was the second-longest period of … computer industry are explored, and the value of looking within multi-industry aggregates like manufacturing is illustrated …

economic activity and of future expected demand on the dynamics of the price mark-up over marginal cost in US manufacturing …

negative variance-size scaling and Laplace growth rate distributions, and are robust to a mild positive relationship between … explanation for why traces of the LPE sometimes occur in conditional mean (i.e. OLS) autoregressions of firm size or firm growth … autoregressions. Based on an original empirical analysis of the population of manufacturing firms in the Netherlands between 1994 and …