This chapter overviews productivity research from an industrial organization perspective. We
focus on what is known and what still needs to be learned about the productivity levels and …

This article examines how final product trade with China shapes and interacts with labor
market imperfections that create market power in labor markets and prevent an efficient …

This article investigates how changing production processes and increasing market power
at the firm level relate to a fall in Germany's manufacturing sector labour share. Coinciding …

This article analyses the importance of intangible capital for firm productivity using
comprehensive official firm-level data from German manufacturing. Both aggregate …

This paper studies the effect of increased competition from imports on the productivity of
firms. It proposes an empirical model that estimates productivity from sales revenue. The …

We present causal evidence on the rent-sharing elasticity of German manufacturing firms.
We develop a new firm-level Bartik instrument for firm rents that combines the firms' …

We study the productivity effect of the German national minimum wage by applying
administrative firm data. At the firm level, we confirm positive effects on wages and negative …

Productivity growth in Europe has been on a downward trend for several decades. Given
that productivity growth is a crucial source of output growth, particularly in an aging society …

We study the changing patterns of business dynamism in Europe after 2000 using novel
micro-aggregated data that we collect for 19 European countries. In all of them, we …

It has not been long since most labor economists abandoned the textbook model of perfect
competition and embraced the idea that workers and employers possess some market …