This paper presents an overview of various models of regional growth that have appeared in
the literature in the last 40 years. It considers the past, and therefore supply‐side models …

This paper considers the relation between (total factor) productivity measures for lower level
production units and aggregates thereof such as industries, sectors, or entire economies. In …

How do new firms contribute to industry productivity growth at the time of entry and then
subsequently over their lifecycle? We analyze this question using a lifecycle decomposition …

While research on carbon productivity is growing rapidly, the role of structural change in
green transition remains unexplored due to the scarcity of firm-level emission data. This …

The main purpose of this book is to develop the theory of (intertemporal) productivity
measurement without relying on the usual neo-classical assumptions, such as the existence …

We exploit the census of Romanian firms in order to provide a microfounded analysis of the
sources of regional disparities in the country during the transition period, 1996–2001. To this …

We develop an augmented Olley–Pakes (OP) decomposition that allows us to examine how
entering and exiting firms contribute to the popular OP covariance measure of allocative …

Structural change is important driver of productivity. Existing decompositions of structural
change rely heavily on the share weights of firms. Ideally, one would need a complete …

East German manufacturers' revenue productivity is substantially below West German
levels, even three decades after German unification. Using firm-product-level data with …

Business survival has been a widely studied phenomenon in management literature given
its impact on economic and social reality. There is some consensus that crises have a …