Techies and Firm Level Productivity

We thank Daron Acemoglu, Mary Amiti, Zsofia Barany, Eric Bartelsman, Flora Bellone, Andrew Bernard, Tibor Besedes, Esther Ann Bøler, Davin Chor, Chiara Criscuolo, Jan De Loecker, Alon Eizenberg, Georg Graetz, Giammario Impullitti, Beata Javorcik, Guy Michaels, Jean-Marc Robin, and John Van Reenen for helpful comments. The paper benefited from comments from seminar participants at Aarhus University, American University, AMSE, Bar Ilan University, Ben Gurion University, CREST, Dresden University, Groningen University, France Stratégie, Hebrew University, University of Le Mans, LSE, Nottingham University, New York University, SAIS, and the Paris Trade Seminar, as well as workshop participants at the CEPR, DEGIT, ENEF, ERWIT, IFN (Stockholm), SETC, and TRISTAN (Dresden). This research was supported by the Bankard Fund for Political Economy at the University of Virginia and by the Agence National de la Recherche under grant numbers ANR-16-CE60-0001-01 and ANR-10-EQPX-17 (Investissements d’Avenir). The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.