markets. This approach explains a variety of features exhibited in disaggregated trade data, including the higher productivity … industry and firm productivity. …

relationships between particular resources and productivity. The paper analyzes the implications of this process on the estimation … of agricultural production functions using a panel of countries. The data includes a measure of capital in agriculture … land and reducing those of fertilizer and labor. The evaluation of the marginal value productivity accounts for the flow of …

contribution of such job matching to aggregate urban productivity appears to be relatively modest. …

the cost and productivity effects, this specification is integrated into a flexible neoclassical cost function. The …, these cost savings can be very large. The estimates of productivity effects are also positive, albeit rather small. …

productivity (TFP). In this article, we summarize a recent literature — and the articles in this special issue on misallocation … and productivity — that focus on the reallocation of factors across heterogenous production units as an important source …

Using data on formal manufacturing plants in India, we report a large but imprecise speedup in productivity growth … starting in the early 1990s (e.g., 1993-2007 compared to 1980-1992). We trace it to productivity growth within large plants … across industries we fail to robustly relate productivity growth to prominent reforms such as industrial de-licensing, tariff …

of Italian manufacturing firms for the period 1995-2003. Financing constraints reduce the aggregate productivity gains …

We examine the link between trade liberalization and aggregate productivity, with a focus on improved market selection … closely on productivity. Using a dynamic simulation, we find that enhanced selection increases aggregate productivity … substantially. Trade liberalization also increases productivity of incumbent plants and improves the allocation of activity. We find …

Measured total factor productivity often declines sharply during financial crises. In 1982, the Chilean manufacturing … derive the appropriate measure of aggregate productivity to which it should be compared. Across specifications, within …