The Cyclicality of Productivity Dispersion
- 1 January 2011
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
Using plant-level data, I show that the dispersion of total factor productivity in U.S. durable manufacturing is greater in recessions than in booms. This cycliKeywords
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