three questions (a) What is the source of knowledge flows? (b) To what extent do such flows contribute to productivity …

What factors underlie industry differences in research intensity and productivity growth? We develop a multi … consumer preferences. We find that industry differences in both productivity growth and R&D intensity mainly reflect …

measured the contribution of organization capital to the conventional TFP growth. The estimation results implied that the … growth of organization capital did not have significant effects on productivity growth. …

We develop a multi-sector general equilibrium model in which productivity growth is driven by the production of sector …-specific knowledge. In the model, we find that long run differences in total factor productivity growth across sectors are independent of …

capacity'). In this paper we document that there has been convergence of TFP within a panel of industries across thirteen OECD … productivity growth. …

PPP estimation and measurement error in low-income countries do not drive the result. …

markets explain both productivity differences and firm density. Estimating structural model parameters is simple and relies on …, while the second incorporates regional costs into production function estimation. The method is applied to Chinese … model, we find that labor markets which provide cost advantages explain substantial differences in firm productivity …