exerting both a direct and an indirect impact on productivity, however, the net effects of the direct effect were found to be … into two effects: internal restructuring which refers to productivity growth of individual firms present in the industry …

industry in most cases, however, has displayed stagnating productivity growth, in some periods even a fall in productivity …. Does this fast-growing industry with a bad productivity record present a threat to aggregate productivity growth and, hence …. The business services industry has an important role in the national innovation system and in knowledge spillovers to …

Our aim in this paper is threefold. First, to test the robustness of the relation between total factor productivity … acceleration of inflation from 1964- 1972 to 1973-1980 reduced total factor productiv-ity growth in a way that was both … our surprise, we find that the inflation-productivity trade-off prevails even in the long run. And, fi-nally, regarding …

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

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 …

outlook. An Algebraic Model of the author infers that Productivity of the assisted nations should be with reference to their …

We examine the contribution of incremental and radical innovations to total factor productivity (TFP) growth at the … firm level. The first part of our analysis is dedicated to the determinants of innovation and reveals two different … innovation regimes. On the one hand, radical innovations rely strongly on firm-level spillovers, including property rights, and …