China is a big country in terms of biotech achievements. It is also a rare country demonstrating crop …

This article investigates the impact that the appreciation and the stability of the real exchange rate in China between … 1993 and 2001 have exerted on productivity growth. We give theoretical arguments explaining the impact of the real exchange … rate on productivity via its effects either on efficiency growth or on technical progress. Then for the twenty-nine Chinese …

threshold of productivity. We examine mobility in two dimensions: from firm to firm (inter-firm) and from one technical field to …. In particular we show that: (1) as predicted by evolutionary theory, inventor productivity is a positive determinant of … invention value, (2) inter-firm mobility is a consistently positive determinant of productivity and (3) technological mobility …

IC matters for firm productivity through the quality of infrastructure, the experience and education of the labor force …

IC matters for firm productivity through the quality of infrastructure, the experience and education of the labor force …

of both wages and productivity are endogenous. We estimate this model using French data. Numerical simulations show that … wage when they are spread over a large range of wages in order to avoid specialization in low productivity jobs. …

them and other workers. After showing how land constraints and the productivity dynamics outside agriculture might prevent …

openness, higher productivity and lower inflation. Following a decline in transport cost openness increases and firm selection … eliminates the least productive domestic firms. The consequent increase in average productivity leads to falling relative prices …-induced productivity growth leads to a significant decline in inflation world wide. …