CompNet Data Provider Forum & TSI Workshop
7th CompNet Data Provider Forum & 4th TSI Workshop The upcoming CompNet Data Providers Forum and TSI Workshop, taking place in Amsterdam on November 18-19, 2024, promises to be a…
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8th vintage
8th Vintage CompNet Dataset The CompNet dataset includes a set of micro-aggregated indicators to enhance policy and academic analysis on competitiveness and productivity. All the…
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6th vintage
6th Vintage CompNet Dataset CompNet has created a competitiveness indicator dataset including a number of European countries. The dataset is unique in terms of its coverage and…
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7th vintage
7th Vintage CompNet Dataset The CompNet dataset includes a set of micro-aggregated indicators to enhance policy and academic analysis on competitiveness and productivity. All the…
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4th and 5th vintage
4th and 5th Vintage CompNet Dataset In 2015-2016 The Competitiveness Research Network released to the public respectively the 4th & 5th Vintage of its aggregated micro-based…
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ComProd Monitor
ComProd Monitor The CompNet monitor of Competitiveness and Productivity indicators ComProd is a comprehensive dataset of innovative and traditional indicators of competitiveness…
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Productivity, Place, and Plants
Benjamin Schoefer, Oren Ziv
Review of Economics and Statistics,
Vol. 106 (5),
2024
Abstract
Why do cities differ so much in productivity? A long literature has sought out systematic sources, such as inherent productivity advantages, market access, agglomeration forces, or sorting. We document that up to three quarters of the measured regional productivity dispersion is spurious, reflecting the “luck of the draw” of finite counts of idiosyncratically heterogeneous plants that happen to operate in a given location. The patterns are even more pronounced for new plants, hold for alternative productivity measures, and broadly extend to European countries. This large role for individual plants suggests a smaller role for places in driving regional differences.
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Do Politicians Affect Firm Outcomes? Evidence from Connections to the German Federal Parliament
André Diegmann, Laura Pohlan, Andrea Weber
IWH Discussion Papers,
Nr. 15,
2024
Abstract
We examine how connections to German federal parliamentarians influence firm dynamics using a novel dataset linking politicians and election candidates to the universe of firms. To identify the causal effects of political access, we exploit (i) new appointments to the company leadership team and (ii) discontinuities around the marginal seat of party election lists. Results reveal that political connections reduce firm exits and gradually increase employment growth, with heterogeneous productivity effects depending on the political mandate. Incorporating data on credit ratings, subsidies, and procurement contracts allows us to identify the mechanisms driving the effects over the politician’s career.
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CompNet Database
The CompNet Competitiveness Database The Competitiveness Research Network (CompNet) is a forum for high level research and policy analysis in the areas of competitiveness and…
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Full sample
Full sample Descriptive Financial Labour Productivity decompositions Trade Markup Joint distributions Back
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