the case of Japan the gap in GDP per capita is essentially due to the lagging performance in labour productivity, the …

This paper reviews recent studies on the links between competition, innovation and productivity growth in the long run …

, which has provided a significant boost to growth, productivity, competitiveness, profits and (more controversially …

corporate taxes on productivity and investment. Applying a differences-in-differences estimation strategy which exploits … effect on productivity at the firm level. The effect is negative across firms of different size and age classes except for …. This may partly explain the negative productivity effects of corporate taxes if new capital goods embody technological …

multifactor productivity (MFP), which plays a crucial role in GDP growth and accounts for a significant share of its cross … productivity. Both privatisation and entry liberalisation are estimated to have a positive impact on productivity. In manufacturing …

labour productivity, which in turn is related to economic geography as well as structural policy factors. The small size and … groundwork for creating this advantage and for a pick-up in productivity growth. But in recent years, New Zealand has lost ground … regulation. Policies should be refocused around the productivity goal in a number of areas, beginning with those covered in this …

improve productivity downstream. We confirm such prediction by estimating a model of multifactor productivity growth in which … to the productivity frontier.<P>Les réglementations du marché des produits dans les secteurs amont limitent-elles la …

-manufacturing sectors could boost aggregate labour productivity levels by several per cent over the next decade in many OECD countries, and … legislation could also raise productivity growth for a while in many OECD and non-OECD G20 countries, although the effects are …

Productivity growth has declined since the late 1990s, slowing the catching-up process. Structural reforms to …