productivity. I find that early scanners increased a store’s labor productivity, on average, by approximately 4.5 percent in the …

This paper examines the impact of environmental regulation on the productivity of manufacturing plants in the United … productivity of being in a county with higher environmental compliance costs is relatively small and often not statistically …

This paper examines whether the productivity of U.S. business establishments is related to the extent to which their … multinationals possess proprietary assets that confer a productivity advantage over their domestically-oriented rivals, and that this … productivity advantage are able to absorb the costs and overcome the risks of operating in a wide range of foreign countries, from …

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

This paper studies the long-term effect of hedge fund activism on the productivity of target firms using plant … and expected returns, we show how changes to target firms’ productivity are associated with a decline in systemic risk …

, controlling form size, productivity, time and type of R&D. Company size and company productivity as well as time do not lean the …

Using plant-level data, I show that the dispersion of total factor productivity in U.S. durable manufacturing is … greater in recessions than in booms. This cyclical property of productivity dispersion is much less pronounced in non … incumbents survive, which results in a more compressed productivity distribution. The resulting higher average productivity in …

changes in the dispersion in wages and productivity across establishments. The second is that the increased dispersion in … wages and productivity across establishments is linked to differential rates of technological adoption across establishments … within industries, (3) the between plant measures of wage and productivity dispersion have indreased substantially over the …

those predicted by models of trade with heterogeneous firms. I find that apparent increases in revenue productivity … associated with antidumping duties are primarily due to increases in prices and mark-ups, as physical productivity falls among …