openness, higher productivity and lower inflation. Following a decline in transport cost openness increases and firm selection …-induced productivity growth leads to a significant decline in inflation world wide. … eliminates the least productive domestic firms. The consequent increase in average productivity leads to falling relative prices …

theoretical underpinnings for most debates on the origins of the particular economic growth and productivity gains that have taken … the evolution of two different forms of productivity (the productivity of labour and total factor productivity … be used to analyse the ongoing economic growth in the U.S. Until now, macroeconomic growth models have provided the …

This paper studies the effect of changes in the employment rate on labour productivity per hour, taking an empirical …

The paper focuses on the influence of upstream competition for productivity outcomes in downstream sectors. This …. Thus, lack of competition in upstream markets curbs incentives to improve productivity downstream, negatively affecting … productivity outcomes. We test this prediction by estimating an error correction model that differentiates the potential downstream …

"capital accumulation channel" and the "total factor productivity (TFP) growth channel". This paper carries out the first …-induced" productivity improvement significantly enhance growth? And finally, what is the magnitude of the TFP growth channel compared to the … productivity. Most interestingly, our estimates suggest that this channel conveys the most important part of the growth …

growth. This paper analyses the innovation-productivity relationship at the industry-level for a sample of OECD manufacturing … sectors of the economy on the innovative process of manufacturing and its consequences on productivity. We test for a …

to adopt liberal trading policies. The present paper extends this idea beyond the conventional trade openness measures by …

This article presents a methodology designed to facilitate alternative variables measuring economic growth. A capital …-labor split of Cobb-Douglas function is adapted for use in the context of economic growth. A capital/income ratio and two …

This article presents a methodology designed to facilitate alternative variables measuring economic growth. A capital …-labor split of Cobb-Douglas function is adapted for use in the context of economic growth. A capital/income ratio and two …