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 …

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 …

Why do cities differ so much in productivity? Using a split-sample IV strategy, we document that up to three quarters … of the large measured dispersion in productivity across US cities is spurious and reflects the "luck of the draw" of … their productivity is only imperfectly correlated with that of older plants, which dominate measured productivity levels …

productivity growth and highlights their main findings on. Surveying the literature at the country, industry and firm level, this … labour productivity growth. Moreover, the findings reported in the literature surveyed suggest that in order to fully reap …