Which structural reforms affect labour productivity growth in developing countries? This paper answers this question by … that financial reforms, trade reforms, and product market reforms boost labour productivity growth. By documenting the main … channels, our results reveal that the reforms studied stimulate labour productivity growth by inducing dynamic efficiency …

In the years since the Great Recession, many observers have highlighted the slow pace of productivity growth around the … the mid-1990s. We provide VAR and panel-data evidence that changes in real interest rates have influenced productivity … have triggered unfavorable resource reallocations that were large enough to reduce the level of total factor productivity …

We investigate how the deterioration of household balance sheets affects worker productivity, and whether such effects …