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measures differences in labor productivity (the Ricardian measure), and the other differences in total factor productivity (the …
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to invest abroad is positively related to their productivity and the size of their intangible assets. …
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, if they enjoy a higher productivity, or if they benefit from foreign, domestic, or communication networks. …
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In this paper, we first introduce investment-specific technology (IST) shocks to an otherwise standard international real business cycle model and show that a thoughtful calibration of them along the lines of Raffo (2009) successfully addresses the "quantity", "international comovement",...
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models featuring Epstein-Zin preferences and affine dynamics for productivity growth and volatility. The method relies on log …
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-level productivity, focusing on the case of Estonia. We contribute to the literature in two important respects: (i) we look explicitly at … constrained. More importantly, we find that financial constraints do not lower productivity for most sectors. …
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The paper presents evidence that the contribution of differences in total factor productivity (TFP) to income …
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This paper provides empirical evidence on the response of labor productivity to the arrival of new inventions. The … analysis shows that labor productivity may temporarily fall below trend after technological progress. However, the effects on … productivity differ between the pre- and post-World War II periods. The pre-war period shows evidence of a productivity slowdown as …
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characteristics. The results suggest that institutional differences are important determinants of total factor productivity and that …
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This paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in U.S. manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000 … has a significant positive effect on productivity in the US, accounting for around 11 percent of productivity growth … during this period. Offshoring material inputs also has a positive effect on productivity, but the magnitude is smaller …
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