through which upstream sector anticompetitive regulations may impact productivity growth: business investments in R&D and in … relating productivity explicitly to R&D and ICT capital as well as to upstream regulations, and two factor demand functions … finding that the impact of upstream regulations on total factor productivity can be sizeable, and they provide evidence that a …

This paper aims to examine the productivity change of the Japanese economy using the data pertaining to the 47 … prefectures during the period 1981-2000. The decomposition analysis of the Hicks-Moorsteen-Bjurek productivity index is conducted … to explore the sources of the productivity change. In summary, technical change and efficiency change are two of the most …

) definition of aggregate productivity growth, which aggregates plant-level changes to changes in aggregate final demand in the … reallocations and plant-level technical efficiency changes while allowing in the estimation for 459 different production … technologies, one for each 4-digit SIC code. On average we find positive aggregate productivity growth of 2.2% in this sector …

empirical finding.Three elaborations to the basic production frontier framework are developed and used to interpret the accident-productivity …

We study how innovation and technology diffusion interact to endogenously determine the productivity distribution and … productivity distribution. With finite support, the aggregate growth rate cannot exceed the maximum growth rate of innovators …

contracts they can write with suppliers or employees. Our main result concerns the sorting of firms with different productivity …