The Economics of Firm Productivity

Concepts, Tools and Evidence

AvCarlo Altomonte,Filippo di Mauro

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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Productivity varies widely between industries and countries, but even more so across individual firms within the same sectors. The challenge for governments is to strike the right balance between policies designed to increase overall productivity and policies designed to promote the reallocation of resources towards firms that could use them more effectively. The aim of this book is to provide the empirical evidence necessary in order to strike this policy balance. The authors do so by using a micro-aggregated dataset for 20 EU economies produced by CompNet, the Competitiveness Research Network, established some 10 years ago among major European institutions and a number of EU productivity boards, National Central Banks, National Statistical institutes, as well as academic Institutions. They call for pan-EU initiatives involving statistical offices and scholars to achieve a truly complete EU market for firm-level information on which to build solidly founded economic policies.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-10-22
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:244
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108702164

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Nationalekonomi inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap

Mer om författaren

Carlo Altomonte is Associate Professor of Economics at Bocconi University and non-resident fellow at Bruegel. He has acted as consultant for a number of international institutions, including the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the United Nations. Filippo di Mauro is the founder and chairman of CompNet, a leading forum for productivity research and provider of a top standard firm-level based dataset. He has been an economist and research manager in central banks (Bank of Italy, US Fed and ECB) and international organizations (IMF and ADB).

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'If you want to see how many insights are obtainable from firm-level productivity analysis, read this book. The authors apply time-tested methods to CompNet data, shedding light on many important questions about how different firms operate and how markets react to such differences.' Chad Syverson, The University of Chicago

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction; 2. Basic concepts; 3. Productivity estimation; 4. Measuring market efficiency; 5. Sources of data; 6. Productivity and the financial environment; 7. Productivity and the labour market; 8. Productivity in a borderless world; 9. Productivity and competitive pressure; 10. Conclusion and final remarks.