Productivity, or the amount of output produced by a given number of inputs,can be measured in a number of ways;1 the … performance relates to microeconomic policies aimed at raisingthe rate of productivity growth.... …

constructs measures of relative total factor productivity for eleven Japanese manufacturingindustries and uses dynamic panel data … methods to test whether a smaller productivity gap leadsto slower growth, and whether R&D takes over as the engine of growth … as Japan approaches thetechnological frontier. The results suggest that Japanese and US productivity have been growingat …

idiosyncraticproductivities and update productivity beliefs using information revealed by their productionexperience. The estimator relies on the … industry. Estimation of productivity dynamics and of behavioraldecision rules are separated into recursive stages. Using … sequential learning estimates of productivitybeliefs from the first stage, decision rules for exit, investment, and innovation …

leading to productivity dispersion... …

over the 1990s. This paper uses data on large UK firms toanalyse the link between R&D and productivity over the 1989 …

industry which depends on fundamentals. In industries with fewer competitors than the critical level, there is productivity …. Above this critical number of competitors, efficient firms price to drive the high cost firms from the market: productivity … of these results are in close keeping with, and provide an explanation for empirical results showing productivity …

trends. Comparing productivity levels across countries is notoriously tricky, but one attractive approach has been to deflate …

less than perfectly correlatedwith productivity, the shape of the optimum schedule is very sensitive to thisrelaxation. For …