Productivity. We endogenize the accrual of the R&D stocks by estimating an R&D investment function. We find that the marginal …

This paper assesses sources of productivity spillovers in China's electric and electronic manufacturing industry using … important reliance on technology. In particular, the paper focuses on the role of other firms' productivity as well as … productivity shifters in affecting own firm-level total factor productivity. In addition, this paper examines the possible …

This paper assesses the role of intra-sectoral spillovers in total factor productivity across Chinese producers in the … as a function of skilled and unskilled labor, capital, materials, and total factor productivity, which is broadly defined …, the extent of accumulated intangible assets, and unobservable total factor productivity. Despite the richness of our data …

While the US experienced two successive labor productivity surges in 1995 and 2000, Germany's productivity declined … dramatically during the same period. We examine the sources of Germany's productivity demise using the ifo industry growth … deeply lacking in the mid 1990's as compared to the US. The transition to the new economy mitigated the German productivity …

While the output of a team is evident, the productivity of each team member is typically not readily identifiable. In … this paper we consider the problem of measuring the productivity of team members. We propose a new concept of coworker … productivity, which we refer to as eigenvalue productivity (EVP). We demonstrate the existence and uniqueness of our concept and …

's foreign intelligence service to sector-specific gaps in total factor productivity (TFP) between West and East Germany. Based …

Why is it that exporter productivity premia (EPP) differ so widely in size? We take this question to the theory and to … EPPs across sectors, and hence across countries, can be explained by the variation in productivity dispersion, trade costs …

When searching for productivity spillovers from foreign firms, a firm is typically classified as foreign using a low … find no horizontal productivity effects using the low threshold direct ownership definition, we find positive and …

We determine workforce composition and wages in firms in the presence of productivity spill-overs between co …