industry which depends on fundamentals. In industries with fewer competitors than the critical level, there is productivity …. Above this critical number of competitors, efficient firms price to drive the high cost firms from the market: productivity … of these results are in close keeping with, and provide an explanation for empirical results showing productivity …

ones leading to productivity dispersion. Rival cost uncertainty then creates an endogenous distribution of productivities …

The paper measures productivity growth in seventeen countries in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.  GDP per …

trends. Comparing productivity levels across countries is notoriously tricky, but one attractive approach has been to deflate …

not due to a non-homothetic technology. Observable skills are not quantitatively important as determinants of productivity …

a non-homothetic technology. Observable skills are not quantitatively important as determinants of productivity …

'transmission bias' in firm-level studies, which arises from firms' reaction to unobservable productivity realisations when making …

The labour productivity differentials between manufacturing firms in Ghana and South Korea exceed those implied by … and South Korea.  There is no significant difference in total factor productivity across the countries once we allow for … in the shape of the relationship between productivity and human capital across countries is crucial for understanding the …