This paper aims to provide empirical researchers with an overview of the methodological
issues that arise when estimating total factor productivity at the establishment level, as well …

We conduct a randomized experiment that generates exogenous variation in the access to
foreign markets for rug producers in Egypt. Combined with detailed survey data, we causally …

The digital economy is progressively emerging as a new driving force for high-quality
development in China and has been paving a new avenue for enterprise development …

We estimate the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on business failures among small and
medium size enterprises (SMEs) in seventeen countries using a large representative firm …

Firms investing in environmental issues often suffer from increased operating costs and
reduced profits. Therefore, rigorous environmental legislation is required to motivate firms to …

The use of both research and development (R&D) and knowledge spillovers has been
identified as the source of relative innovation underperformance in Europe vis-à-vis the …

Learning individual-level causal effects from observational data, such as inferring the most
effective medication for a specific patient, is a problem of growing importance for policy …

The development of green energy is an important tool to balance economic growth and
environmental protection. Using 27,043 data observations from A-share listed companies on …

This paper examines some of the recent literature on the estimation of production functions.
We focus on techniques suggested in two recent papers, Olley and Pakes (1996) and …

This paper investigates the impact of changes in environmental policy stringency on industry-
and firm-level productivity growth in a panel of OECD countries. To test the strong version of …