, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this …

Using panel data for nearly all service providers in a single industry sector, we examine productivity responses to … interest in maximising productivity. Ours is the first study to measure service industry productivity using both price and … Productivity (TFP) than incumbents. Increased competition from new entrants leads incumbents to reduce the price of union …

Although market concentration is one of the main impediments to productivity growth globally, data constraints have … the effects of local industry concentration on productivity. The main results show that a decline by 10 points in the … factor productivity of revenue. Local industry concentration also has heterogeneous effects on productivity across industries …

-setting power) and (iii) revenue productivity. We apply this framework to analyze whether the pricing behavior of firms in product …

rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT …-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …

; productivity ; financial constraint ; export ; technology frontier ; BEEPS …

to answer this question. A union monitors establishments in an industry to learn about their productivity and decides …