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 …

This paper estimates the aggregate productivity effects of Marshallian externalities generated by foreign direct … externalities and other intra- and inter-regional spillovers generated by domestic firms. The productivity effects of these … explicitly as determinants of total factor productivity, and tests several empirical specifications of this model, using data for …

This study examines the determinants of total factor productivity (TFP) in US firms. Moreover, the firms' technology … activities are more related within similar technologies are able to report higher productivity, especially during economic … recession periods. As such, firms can monitor productivity for strategic reasons such as corporate planning and organisation …

trading patterns are significant in explaining the contemporaneous fluctuations in its R&D productivity. This finding is … consistent with the hypothesis that management has considerable information about its R&D productivity beyond what is known to …

Productivity growth has been slow in many continental European countries over the last few decades, especially in … product market competition experience higher rates of productivity growth. We also find weak evidence for the notion that in … Germany's bank-based system of internal control, ownership concentration is harmful for productivity growth. …

In this paper we study the productivity-survival link in the U.S. poultry processing industry using the longitudinal … productivity and demand-specific factors on plant survival and ownership change. Second, we analyze the determinants of the firm … ownership change. The effect of physical productivity on the probability of exit or ownership change is generally insignificant …

US productivity leadership or could be due to the ease in which US firms operate in their home surroundings. The evidence … would therefore be more compelling if US firms were leaders outside the US. We study the productivity of plants owned by US …