mismatches are associated with significant productivity losses …

to firm innovative performance and to its productivity. The impacts of adoption of the four surveyed KM practices on firm … innovative and productivity performance are not completely accounted by firm size, industry, research & development (R&D) efforts …

This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm …-country differences in key economic outcomes, such as productivity or output per capita, to differences in policies and institutions that … determinants of productivity at the firm level and the evolution of the distribution of productivity across firms within each …

impact of raising aggregate productivity. These results suggest that the dispersion of entrepreneurial abilities is small in …

-level data. I find that nearly half of the observed productivity advantage of large cities is due to firm sorting. I use the …

We assess the effects of a major land policy change on farm size and agricultural productivity using a quantitative … redistributed farm lands. We study this reform in the context of an industry model of agriculture with a non-degenerate distribution … can reduce agricultural productivity not only by misallocating resources across farmers but also by distorting farmers …

This paper seeks to explain the U-shaped relationship between farm productivity and farm scale - the initial fall in … productivity as farm size increases from its lowest levels and the continuous upward trajectory as scale increases after a …

Recent research has pointed to large gaps in labor productivity between the agricultural and nonagricultural sectors in …). Accounting for individual fixed effects leads to much smaller estimated productivity gains from moving into the nonagricultural … fixed effects are included. Estimated productivity gaps do not emerge up to five years after a move between sectors. We …

factor misallocation in agriculture. We find that there are substantial frictions in both the land and capital markets linked … aggregate agricultural productivity in China by affecting two key margins: (1) the allocation of resources across farmers … (misallocation) and (2) the allocation of workers across sectors, in particular the type of farmers who operate in agriculture …

. For new technologies, the case of agriculture demonstrates that government has an important role in antitrust, the …