This paper analyzes the productivity in the US rail industry for the period 1980 - 2006. I propose a value … productivity gains can be attributed to returns to scale and the reshuffling of resources to more efficient firms. However …, productivity slows down for the period 1995 - 2000 after important concentrations. I also look at the correlations between firm …

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 …

establishment entry and exit drive immigrant-induced job creation and a rightward shift of the productivity distribution in U ….S. local industries. High-productivity establishments are more likely to enter and less likely to exit in high immigration … environments, whereas low-productivity establishments are more likely to exit. These dynamics result in productivity growth. A …

Intuition can lead to more effective decision-making than analysis under certain conditions. This assumption can be … regarded as common sense. However, dominant research streams on intuition effectiveness in decision-making conceptualize … article suggests the structuredness of the decision problem as the main criterion for intuition effectiveness, and proposes …