This paper surveys recent empirical studies exploring aggregate productivity growth based on firm dynamics, focusing on … micro-data from OECD countries. Aggregate productivity growth can be analysed as a sum of two separate processes. <I …>i</I>) Changes in productivity in individual firms at a given size (relative to market). And, <I>ii</I>) a reallocation process due …

This paper surveys recent empirical studies exploring aggregate productivity growth based on firm dynamics, focusing on … micro-data from OECD countries. Aggregate productivity growth can be analysed as a sum of two separate processes. i) Changes … in productivity in individual firms at a given size (relative to market). And, ii) a reallocation process due to …

This paper reviews recent studies on the links between competition, innovation and productivity growth in the long run …

This paper reviews recent studies on the links between competition, innovation and productivity growth in the long run …

implemented during the 1990s are now paying off in terms of productivity and GDP growth. Empirical evidence suggests that … deregulation has delivered a considerable “productivity dividend”. Although significant progress therefore has been made, renewed …

productivity (MFP) convergence in a panel of 42 countries. The OECD long-term growth model is augmented to show that, in addition …

adoption costs imply that the Solow residual mismeasures productivity growth: adoption costs are resource costs representing an … unmeasured investment. I find that when this investment is included, productivity grew about 0.4% per annum faster than official … measures during the 70's and early 80's, reducing the size of the productivity "slowdown." Indeed, estimated productivity …