cover essentially all firms in the Finnish business sector, we first document that labor productivity dispersion is very … market equilibrium and whether innovation subsidies can improve industry productivity by mitigating such a tax distortion. …

aggregate productivity, resource allocation, and industry export activity along both the extensive and intensive margins. Using … productivity and shipping costs using Chilean plant-level data for a set of manufacturing industries. The estimated model is … consistent with the key features of the data regarding productivity, exporting, and importing. We perform a variety of …

This paper studies the productivity impact of heterogeneous capital inputs of selected EU-15 member countries and of …

International specialization is a strong driver of sectoral productivity. This specialization is not only characterized … productivity effects stemming from embodied technologydiffusion on sectoral level. Therefore, based on the idea of Romer's model of … productivity via use of high-tech inputs. For a sample of 12 OECD countries over the 1995-2007period, the empirical evidence of …

productivity. An important issue, therefore, is how to measure allocative efficiency. We compare popular indicators of allocative … productivity and to the Olley-Pakes (OP) covariance component, which is currently the most popular measure of allocative efficiency …

In a recent paper, Bloom et al. (2020) find evidence for a substantial decline in research productivity in the U …

productivity growth in Canada. Results suggest that the impact of a positive relative price shock will - in the adjustment process … - lower productivity growth in the primary and the non-tradable sectors, and increase it somewhat in the manufacturing sector …. The overall impact appears to be slightly negative on aggregate labour productivity growth, but this effect is only …

problem was the slow growth of productivity, caused by the slow growth of the manufacturing sector. And why did that matter …? Because he found that productivity of the manufacturing sector was positively related the growth of the manufacturing sector …

investigate the relation between firms' trading activities (importing, exporting or both) and productivity. We find important self … average productivity premia of exporters. …