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 …

high regional disparities, varying with the sector. We also find diverse combinations in productivity and unit price of …

raising labour force participation and productivity can partly offset the impacts of an ageing population. These would enhance …

high regional disparities, varying with the sector. We also find diverse combinations in productivity and unit price of …

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 … its own stagnating productivity growth. Moreover, the industry has not yet exhausted opportunities for tackling existing X …

This paper investigates efficiency using data envelopment analysis (DEA) and productivity growth using Malmquist index … and loans and other earning assets as output in the DEA analysis we observe no significant growth in productivity during … equity to assets and high return to average equity ratios. There has been no growth in productivity in private sector banks …

finds that productivity growth estimates for electricity generators can change significantly when allowance is made for … greenhouse gas emissions. Using an innovative analytical technique for incorporating environmental impacts in productivity … estimates, it shows that productivity growth is overestimated when emission intensity is rising and underestimated when emission …

In this paper I evaluate the contribution of R&D investments to productivity growth. The basis for the analysis are the … production externalities. The resulting contribution of R&D to productivity growth in the US is smaller than three to five tenths …

in total factor productivity could validate the set of relative prices that ruled before the stop. The first three … suggested. The model can easily accommodate supply side effects including total factor productivity growth which play a key rôle … operation to encourage 'structural reforms' to favor total factor productivity improvements. …

national innovation systems. The study also analyses the factors behind this industry's poor productivity growth. A scenario …