We study the impact of intersectoral and interregional trade linkages in propagating disaggregated productivity changes … of measured TFP, GDP, and employment to regional and sectoral productivity changes. We find that the elasticities vary …

We study the impact of FDI on the productivity of host-country firms. FDI has positive spillovers only when foreign and … increase productivity spillovers from FDI. We show that inventor mobility across sectors is a key channel of technology … transfer. To deal with endogeneity concerns we control for sectoral productivity growth, construct a Bartik-style instrument …

occurred in Finland in the early 1990s. We find that the sharp drop in real GDP over the period 1990-93 was driven by a … combination of a drop in total factor productivity (TFP) during 1990-92 and of increases in taxes on labor and consumption and … increases in government consumption during 1989-94, which drove down hours worked in Finland. We attempt to endogenize the drop …

productivity in several thousand establishments located in these regions. To organize the discussion, we present a new model of …

economic predicament. With an aggregate labour productivity of 55% relative to the rest of the country, both are true transfer …

technological change and the measurement of total factor productivity that emerged during the second half of the 1950s. Section 2 …

In this chapter we analyze immigration and its effect on urban and regional economies focusing on productivity and …

-adjusted total factor productivity series, which we take as a measure of exogenous productivity. In contrast to the predictions of … the model, positive productivity shocks are estimated to be more expansionary at the ZLB compared to normal times. However …, in line with the predictions of the basic model, positive productivity shocks have a stronger negative effect on …