Reproducibility package for Digitalization, Remote Work and Firm Performance: Evidence from the COVID-19 Shock

The authors are immensely grateful to the many World Bank Group colleagues and counterpart institutions that have supported the Business Pulse Survey (BPS) data collection, without whom this work would not have been possible. Likewise, we thank the Enterprise Analysis Unit of the Development Economics Global Indicators Department of the World Bank Group for making the Enterprise Survey data available. We thank Gene Grossman, Mona Haddad, Denis Medvedev, Antonio Nucifora, Marcelo Olarreaga and Daria Taglioni for their guidance and strategic support of the BPS initiative, and the Umbrella Trade Trust Fund for financial support. We thank Yewon Choi, Shwetha Eapen, and Mauricio Latorre for their research assistance. The authors are also grateful to the following colleagues for their feedback at the concept stage of this project: Asya Akhlaque, Ana Fernandes, Caroline Freund, Mary Hallward-Driemeier, Leonardo Iacovone, Michele Ruta, Daria Taglioni, Gonzalo Varela and Erik von Uexkull. We thank Edgar Avalos and Jesica Torres for their contributions in the initial stages of the project and Arthur Johannes Giesberts for his generosity in sharing his tool for converting text variables into 4-digit industry codes. We thank Alvaro Espitia and co-authors of Espitia et al. (2021) for kindly sharing the remote work flexibility indicator and the output share of durable products by industry. The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the World Bank, its Executive Directors, or the countries they represent.