Peer-reviewed publications

Job Tasks, Worker Skills and Productivity

(with Jake Blackwood, Cindy Cunningham, Matthew Dey, Lucia Foster, Cheryl Grim, John Haltiwanger, Rachel Nesbit, Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia, Jay Stewart, Cody Tuttle), prepared for the 38th IARIW General Conference, conference copy

Automation, Labor Share, and Productivity: Plant-Level Evidence from U.S. Manufacturing

(with Emin Dinlersoz), Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2024, Vol. 33, Issue 4, online appendix, working paper version

Opening the Black Box: Task and Skill Mix and Productivity Dispersion

(with Jake Blackwood, Cindy Cunningham, Matthew Dey, Lucia Foster, Cheryl Grim, John Haltiwanger, Rachel Nesbit, Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia, Jay Stewart, Cody Tuttle), Ch. 10 In: Susanto Basu, Lucy Eldridge, John haltiwanger, and Erich Strassner (ed.) Technology, Productivity, and Economic Growth, Studies in Income and Wealth, volume 83, conference copy here

Macro and Micro Dynamics of Productivity: From Devilish Details to Insights

(with Jake Blackwood, Lucia Foster, Cheryl Grim, John Haltiwanger), American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, NBER working paper version

Firm-Level Dispersion in Productivity: Is the Devil in the Details?

(with Lucia Foster, Cheryl Grim and John Haltiwanger), American Economic Review, May 2016, Vol. 106, No. 5.  

Collaborative Micro-Productivity Project: Establishment-Level Productivity Dataset, 1972-2020

(with Jake Blackwood, Cheryl Grim, Rachel Nesbit, Cody Tuttle), CES Working Paper 23-65 

Productivity Dispersion and Structural Change in Retail Trade

(with Dominic Smith, Jake Blackwood, Mike Giandrea, Cheryl Grim, Jay Stewart), CES Working Paper 23-60

Chaos Before Order: Productivity Patterns in U.S. Manufacturing ​

(with Cindy Cunningham, Lucia Foster, Cheryl Grim, Sabrina Pabilonia, John Haltiwanger, and Jay Stewart), International Productivity Monitor (41) 

Dispersion in Dispersion:  Measuring Establishment-Level Differences in Productivity

(with Cindy Cunnigham, Lucia Foster, Cheryl Grim, John Haltiwanger, Sabrina Pabilonia, and Jay Stewart), Review of Income and Wealth, Volume 69, Issue 4 

Measuring Productivity Dispersion

(with Eric Bartelsman), Chapter 18 in The Oxford Handbook of Productivity Analysis

Innovation, Productivity Growth and Productivity Dispersion

(with Lucia Foster, Cheryl Grim, John Haltiwanger),  A version prepared for the 2017 CRIW can be found here, NBER working paper version

Forecasting Aggregate Productivity using Information from Firm-Level Data

(with Eric Bartelsman), Review of Economics and Statistics, October 2014, Vol. 96, No. 4. 

Ongoing Projects

Allocating Misallocation: Decomposing Measures of Aggregate Allocative Efficiency

(with Jake Blackwood and John Haltiwanger), slides

Using Census Microdata to Forecast U.S. Productivity

(with Eric Bartelsman and Chris Kurz), A version prepared for the 2011 NBER CRIW Workshop can be found here.

Forecastability, Procyclicality and the Granular Hypothesis

Working Papers

The Role of Institutions and Firm Heterogeneity for Labour Market Adjustment: Cross-Country Firm-Level Evidence  

(with Alex Hijzen and Peter Gal), IZA Discussion Paper No. 7404, May 2013.

Driving factors of growth in Hungary - a decomposition exercise

(with Gabor Katay), Working Paper 2008/06, National Bank of Hungary.

Investment Behavior, User Cost and Monetary Policy Transmission - the Case of Hungary

(with Gabor Katay), Working Paper 2004/12, National Bank of Hungary.