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The literature on within-firm organizational change and productivity suggests that firms can make more efficient use of … technologies and that joint adoption leads to higher productivity. Without having introduced complementary organizational … innovations, the adoption of CO2 reducing technologies is associated with lower productivity. …
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unprecedented growth. We then proceed to study if this positive impact of VC is also present on productivity growth, which is a … affects total factor productivity growth. We do find that VC investment is positively associated with labor productivity but …
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IT are more productive, and if heavier users of IT are indeed more productive, how does this increase in productivity …
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The US has experienced a sustained increase in productivity growth since the mid-1990s, particularly in sectors that … intensively use information technologies (IT). This has not occurred in Europe. If the US “productivity miracle” is due to a … abroad. This paper shows in fact that US multinationals operating in the UK do have higher productivity than non …
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This paper assesses the ‘one big wave’ in multi-factor productivity (MFP) growth for the United States since 1870. The … mysterious doubling in the ratio of output to capital input when the postwar era is compared with 1870-1929. Measurement … the measurement of capital. A new MFP series taking account of all these adjustments grows more slowly throughout, and the …
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. This model implies that areas with a greater number of firms have higher average firm productivity. We confirm this …
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We study and endogenous growth model where a profit-motivated R&D sector coexists with the introduction of free blueprints invented by philanthropists. These goods are priced at marginal cost, contrary to proprietary ones, which are produced by a monopoly owned by the inventor. We show that...
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and plays a key role in the productivity resurgence of the 1990s. Driving this finding is 4% annual growth in the quality … recent increase in productivity growth is sustainable. …
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The EU-US total factor productivity (TFP) growth gap since the mid-1990's is concentrated in a handful of market …
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We test for internal and external economies of scale in European manufacturing, employing a more disaggregated data set than has been used in earlier analyses. We aim to separate externalities from common business cycle effects. Fifteen European manufacturing industries in Germany, France, the...
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