Recent research conducted by the IDB shows that innovation positively affects productivity growth in the Latin American … dynamics at play in the service sector in the region and the relationship between productivity and innovation in services (as … prolonged productivity lags in the region, while, if well designed and implemented, could have large economic payoffs. This …

of a technique depends on both the productivity embodied in the technique and the cost of the particular input; when … productivity depends on whether the lower cost firms are the important suppliers of inputs. When the share of intermediate goods in … production is high, the lower cost firms are selected as suppliers more frequently. This raises aggregate productivity and also …

percent for total factor productivity. Overall, the distortions explain about 67 percent of the variation in income per worker …

We study how total factor productivity (TFP), energy prices, and the Great Moderation are linked. First we estimate a … negatively affected productivity. This spillover has since disappeared. Second, we show that within the framework of a dynamic … stochastic general equilibrium model, the disappearance of this energy-productivity spillover generates the significantly lower …

We use data on Austrian firms and employees to estimate the effects of employer-provided training on productivity … general, we find a robust positive elasticity of training on productivity of about 0.04. In-house training is more effective …

linking this to productivity, which turns out to be important. The paper also provides an example of modeling productivity …

: interest rate parity, productivity based models, and a composite specification incorporating the real interest differential …