therefore average annual observed productivity growth overestimated the corrected rate by 33 percent …

efficiency-based productivity growth rates to exceed observed productivity growth in the slowdown period of 1974 - 1995 …

This is the first paper to directly measure and decompose total factor productivity growth (TFPG) for the Canadian life …

, profitability, and productivity growth. Asymmetric information generates agency costs of debt and signaling benefits of dividends … benefits contribute 4.2 percent to total factor productivity growth, while agency costs reduce efficiency by 3.3 percent. Thus …

productivity is decomposed. Price-cost margins exert little influence but the rate of technological change, returns to scale and … the rate of capital adjustment determine productivity growth …

This paper presents estimates of the productivity and factor bias effects of interindustry R&D spillovers for five high …