Do firms have the right incentives to innovate in the presence of productivity spillovers? This paper proposes an …-term wage contracts with their workers, productivity spillovers are fully internalized. If firms cannot commit to long-term wage …

States in terms of unemployment, productivity growth and wage inequality. To show this, we construct two fictitious economies … productivity grows less due to larger mismatch. The model can be used to address a number of normative issues. …

Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in … privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier … find that privatization to domestic owners did not markedly improve the efficiency of firms; domestic firms are not …

reform and free trade and by thus enhancing macroeconomic efficiency at full employment. Second, the static output gain from …

by enhancing efficiency as if a relative price distortion were being removed through price reform, trade liberalization …

productivity growth in the US economy can be attributed to a technological acceleration within durable manufacturing and to …-factor productivity in the 88% of the economy outside of durable manufacturing. In comparison with the Great Inventions of 1860-1900, the …

This paper assesses the ‘one big wave’ in multi-factor productivity (MFP) growth for the United States since 1870. The … boosting productivity growth, followed by a reopening that contributed to the post-1972 productivity slowdown. …

capita income, whereas its labour productivity level -- notably in manufacturing -- remained relatively high. The Dutch …

As a result of debt enforcement problems, many high-productivity firms in emerging economies are unable to pledge … additional resources that flow to high-productivity firms after the reforms. We show that some of these resources do not come … from abroad, but instead from domestic low-productivity firms that are driven out of business as a result of the reforms …

leading to poor productivity performance are the most plausible explanation of Britain's relative decline. It is argued both …