Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain company and national productivity, or do they … cross-country total factor productivity differences. …

We argue that social capital as proxied by regional trust and the Rule of Law can improve aggregate productivity …

Economists have long puzzled over the astounding differences in productivity between firms and countries. For example … productivity could be accounted for by differential inputs, such as capital intensity. Syverson looked at industries defined at the … Syverson (2008) show large differences in total factor productivity even within very homogeneous goods industries such as boxes …