to which China’s regulatory environment is supportive of competition in markets for goods and services. The results … aspects of China’s regulatory framework and suggests a number of policy initiatives that would improve the extent to which … lowering barriers to foreign direct investment in services would also increase competition and enhance productivity growth …

This paper explores the productivity impact of trade, product market and financial market policies over the last decade … in China – a fast growing country where, despite significant reform action, regulatory stance remains still far from OECD … investigating the link between these policies and productivity growth depending on how far incumbents are relative to the …

China is well-placed to avoid the so-called “middle-income trap” and to continue to converge towards the more advanced …

) on total factor productivity (TFP) and labour productivity in India. Identification of the effect of EPL follows from a …

As it takes time and effort to learn how to fully utilise new technology and realise its maximum potential productivity … gain, adoption of new technology tends to reduce productivity temporarily, even though the potential productivity gain in … potential explanation of the following two “productivity puzzles” reported in the Information Technology (IT) literature and in …

This paper presents a productivity growth measure that explicitly accounts for natural capital as an input factor and … productivity measurement for bad outputs and estimates of their shadow prices, while the inclusion of natural capital is discussed … in more depth in a companion paper. As bad outputs are the target of environmental policies, a productivity measure that …

This paper analyses how different tax policies can affect investment and productivity. To address this question the … productivity tests the hypothesis that taxes affect productivity through different channels and that due to some salient industry … top personal income taxes have a negative effect on productivity. In contrast, tax incentives for research and development …

recession Estonia’s gap in income and productivity levels compared with the EU average was still around 30% and as the country … closing the productivity gap in the manufacturing-for-export sector compared with other transition countries would serve as a …

This paper uses a simple dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model to explore the qualitative impact of productivity …