Productivity is an important component of profitability, and therefore an important variable for
monitoring and benchmarking exercises. This survey discusses the basic accounting model …

Lags in official data releases have forced economists and policymakers to leverage
“alternative” or “non-traditional” data to measure business exit resulting from the COVID-19 …

This paper explores the extent to which 'zombie'firms–defined as old firms that have
persistent problems meeting their interest payments–are stifling labour productivity …

We design and conduct a firm-level survey on the use of COVID-19-related government
programs, in collaboration with Tokyo Shoko Research, LTD (TSR). Combining the survey …

Organization capital is a production factor that is embodied in the firm's key talent and has
an efficiency that is firm specific. Hence, both shareholders and key talent have a claim to its …

This article describes the contents and the construction of the EU KLEMS Growth and
Productivity Accounts. This database contains industry‐level measures of output, inputs and …

The conventional wisdom for the health care sector is that idiosyncratic features leave little
scope for market forces to allocate consumers to higher performance producers. However …

This paper examines whether the economic crisis induced by the COVID-19 pandemic
exhibits a Schumpeterian “cleansing” of less productive firms. Using firm-level data collected …

We define aggregate productivity growth (APG) as the change in aggregate final demand
minus the change in the aggregate expenditures on labor and capital. We show how to …

Fundamental drivers of the evolution of contemporary economies are the activities of search,
discovery and economic exploitation of new products, new production processes, new …