sources of the growth of output, labor productivity, and total factor productivity. The results show that resource …

productivity performance of twelve two-digit U.S. manufacturing industries. A general framework is developed to measure … contribution of demand, relative input prices, technical change, as well as publicly financed capital on total factor productivity … and R&D capital contribute to productivity growth. However, the magnitudes of their contribution vary considerably across …

, profitability, and productivity growth. Asymmetric information generates agency costs of debt and signaling benefits of dividends … benefits contribute 4.2 percent to total factor productivity growth, while agency costs reduce efficiency by 3.3 percent. Thus …

structure and productivity performance of twelve two-digit U.S. manufacturing industries. The results suggest that there are … their contributions to growth of labor productivity vary over time as well. Not only is the cost function shifted downward … in each industry, generating productivity inducement, but the factor demand in each industry is also affected by the two …

decomposition of total factor productivity growth …