This paper studies procyclical productivity growth at the industry level in the U.S. and in three European countries … explain procyclical productivity. However, this correction still leaves one in three U.S. industries with procyclical … productivity. This failure of the model can also be seen in Europe and is mostly concentrated in services industries. …

behavior of the primal and dual productivity residuals by allowing for nonconstant returns to scale and imperfect competition …. Likewise, the presence of the quasi-fixity of capital helps to reconcile the behavior of the primal and dual productivity …

conditions. The model provides a step toward a theory of endogenous innovation under conditions of perfect competition. …

foreign ownership and plant productivity. To control for the possible endogeneity of the FDI decision, a difference … context, is the ability to follow the timing of observed changes in productivity and other aspects of plant performance. The … results suggest that foreign ownership leads to significant productivity improvements in the acquired plants. The improvements …

overdraft facility on productivity. To overcome potential omitted variable bias of OLS estimates, we use information on firms …

(larger cities promote interactions that increase productivity) and firm selection (larger cities toughen competition allowing … selection model and a standard model of agglomeration. Stronger selection in larger cities left-truncates the productivity … agglomeration and firm selection using French establishment-level data and a new quantile approach. Spatial productivity differences …

productivity of manufacturing industries relying on services inputs. The results, based on firm-level data from the Czech Republic …

Using two matched plant level skills and productivity datasets for UK manufacturing we document that (i) more …

unprecedented growth. We then proceed to study if this positive impact of VC is also present on productivity growth, which is a … affects total factor productivity growth. We do find that VC investment is positively associated with labor productivity but …