efficiency-based productivity growth rates to exceed observed productivity growth in the slowdown period of 1974 - 1995 …

This is the first paper to directly measure and decompose total factor productivity growth (TFPG) for the Canadian life …

This paper examines trends in computer usage and the effect on productivity growth for a sample of federal government … Computer Productivity Paradox as it applies to the public sector. Computers do not appear to be responsible for the … disappointing productivity performance of the service sector. Although the magnitude of our estimated elasticity suggests that the …

, profitability, and productivity growth. Asymmetric information generates agency costs of debt and signaling benefits of dividends … benefits contribute 4.2 percent to total factor productivity growth, while agency costs reduce efficiency by 3.3 percent. Thus …

This paper extends previous research on the effect of investment on labor productivity at the country level by … to have a significant positive effect on productivity. Moreover, this effect appears to be quite large. The estimated …

productivity is decomposed. Price-cost margins exert little influence but the rate of technological change, returns to scale and … the rate of capital adjustment determine productivity growth …

operated. using plant-level Census Bureau data, we show that productivity is inversely related to the degree of diversification …, the lower the productivity of its plants. Hence de-diversification is one of the means by which recent takeovers have … contributed to U.S. productivity growth. We also find that the effectiveness of regulations governing disclosure by companies of …

higher rates of total factor productivity (TFP) growth than other plants in the same industry. The productivity impact of … LBOs is much larger than our previous estimates of the productivity impact of ownership changes in general. Management …

This paper uses confidential Census longitudinal microdata to examine the association between R&D and productivity for …&D investment 2) higher returns to company-financed research 3) a productivity "premium" on basic research These results are robust …