Outputs (4)

On the productivity advantage of cities (2024)
Journal Article
Jacob, N., & Mion, G. (2024). On the productivity advantage of cities. Journal of Economic Geography, 24(5), 679-705. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbae020

Agglomeration externalities are the key factor explaining the existence of cities and their size. However, while the various micro foundations of agglomeration externalities stress the importance of total factor productivity (TFP), the empirical evid... Read More about On the productivity advantage of cities.

Unraveling Firms: Demand, Productivity and Markups Heterogeneity (2023)
Journal Article
Forlani, E., Martin, R., Mion, G., & Muûls, M. (2023). Unraveling Firms: Demand, Productivity and Markups Heterogeneity. Economic Journal, 133(654), 2251-2302. https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/uead031

We develop a novel framework that simultaneously allows recovering heterogeneity in demand, quantity TFP and markups across firms while leaving the correlation between the three dimensions unrestricted. We accomplish this by explicitly introducing de... Read More about Unraveling Firms: Demand, Productivity and Markups Heterogeneity.

The UK's Great Demand and Supply Recession (2022)
Journal Article
Jacob, N., & Mion, G. (2023). The UK's Great Demand and Supply Recession. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 85(5), 993-1022. https://doi.org/10.1111/obes.12533

We revisit the weak productivity performance of the UK since the Great Recession by means of both a suitable theoretical framework and firm-level price and quantity data for detailed products, allowing us to measure both demand and its changes over t... Read More about The UK's Great Demand and Supply Recession.

The Value of Managers' Export Experience: Lessons from the Angolan Civil War (2022)
Journal Article
Mion, G., Opromolla, L. D., Sforza, A., Ornelas, E., Ottaviano, G., Overman, H., & Pisch, F. (in press). The Value of Managers' Export Experience: Lessons from the Angolan Civil War. Review of Economics and Statistics, https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_01278

We investigate how managers help firms grow by entering a new export market. We conduct an event study on the decision to export to Angola using data on Portuguese firms and workers. We evaluate the impact of the presence of managers with experience... Read More about The Value of Managers' Export Experience: Lessons from the Angolan Civil War.