There is a wide consensus that New Zealand’s productivity has been poor despite the comprehensive market …-oriented reforms of the 1980’s. This consensus is based on estimates of New Zealand’s productivity growth measured either in terms of … GDP per capita or total factor productivity (TFP). TFP is typically computed using growth accounting (i.e., calibrating a …

This study analyses the role played by adjustment costs and R&D investment prices in total R&D productivity. The … results show that on average, for each monetary unit increase in adjustment costs produces a fall in productivity of 0 …

infers that, all nations, irrespective their level of development, should evaluate Productivity/Management Decisions with …

positive knowledge spillovers, but the effects of intra-industry trade are ambiguous. With regard to sectoral import … penetration, we find that potential positive spillovers are dominated by negative competition effects. This, however, masks the …

to a panel of Indonesian rice farms where spatial correlations represent productivity shock spillovers, based on … geographic proximity and weather. These spillovers affect farm-level efficiency estimation and ranking. …

&D has a statistically significant positive impact on own- industry output per person, suggesting it increases productivity … certain industries positively affects output per person in the rest of the economy, i.e. it generates positive spillovers …. There is no evidence of positive spillovers from publicly provided R&D. …

We examine the contribution of incremental and radical innovations to total factor productivity (TFP) growth at the … innovation regimes. On the one hand, radical innovations rely strongly on firm-level spillovers, including property rights, and …