-down approach of Diewert and Yu (2012). Inputs and outputs are measured and used to estimate the quarterly total factor productivity …

examines the effect of the various user cost formulae on the measured multifactor productivity growth …

Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth in Canada between 2002 and 2014 has been only 0.16% per year. Although many … developed countries have experienced a productivity slowdown since the beginning of the century, this figure is still …, Canada has experienced sustained income growth due to a prolonged period of appreciation of the terms of trade (while terms …

The MACE model of Canada employs a nested production structure in which there is a vintage bundle of capital and energy … structure, it is possible to attribute 30% of the decline in labour productivity between 1973 and 1982, relative to a steady … factor proportions, demand, and profitability in Canada were due to the changes in world oil prices and the parallel changes …

Measures of productivity growth typically include in the Productivity "residual" the impacts of subequilibrium from … productivity growth can be attributed to production characteristics other than technical change, particularly scale economies …

correct for this source of productivity change would have led to a 31% under estimate of long-run TFP growth in Canada arid a …In this paper we calculate and analyze the automobile industries cost and productivity experience during the 1970 's in … Canada, the U.S.and Japan. Utilizing an econometric cost function methodology, we are able to isolate the major source of …