José Alberto Ferreira

Research

Main question. How do firms (re)allocate resources over time and across the cross-section — and what does that imply for macro aggregates such as business dynamism and productivity?

Approach. Micro-to-macro: I bring census-level firm data into models with real and financial frictions.

Working Papers

Firm Dynamics with Intangible Capital
Job market paper

How can firms grow and finance themselves in an increasingly intangible economy?

[Placeholder abstract — a paragraph on the model of firm growth and financing when capital is increasingly intangible, the frictions involved, and the quantitative findings.]

Nonlinear Productivity Dynamics
Working paper

How harmless is the AR(1) assumption on productivity?

[Placeholder abstract — what we find when productivity processes are allowed to be nonlinear, the distinction between TFPQ and TFPR, and the implications for firm dynamics.]

Dissecting the Decline in Investment Rates: Shocks vs. Responsiveness
Working paper

Why has investment dynamism declined across countries since the Global Financial Crisis?

[Placeholder abstract — decomposing the decline in investment into the role of shocks versus firms' responsiveness to them, using cross-country firm-level data.]

Policy Work

Through CompNet I contribute to cross-country research and policy notes on firm dynamics, built on the Micro Data Infrastructure (MDI). [Add links as outputs are published.]