This paper presents firm-level estimates of revenue-based total factor productivity premiums of manufacturing firms … adopting digital technology in 82 developing economies over 2002–19. The paper estimates productivity using the control … function approach and assuming an endogenous revenue-based total factor productivity process, which is a function of multiple …

Ethiopia's competitiveness and attractiveness as an investment destination by comparing domestic productivity and input costs …, the labor cost advantage of Ethiopian firms is more than offset by low productivity. However, Ethiopia appears competitive … when compared to Bangladesh. Capital, firm size, or sectoral composition do not explain the low productivity of the …

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 …

-of-sample prediction of a wider set of models that have been proposed in the last decade, namely interest rate parity, productivity based …

India's dramatic trade liberalization starting from 1991 on market efficiency and productivity growth using Indian … from the shrinking of market size experienced no change or falling total factor productivity (TFP) growth; whereas leather …