that core infrastructure and Information & Communication Technology (ICT) matter for Total Factor Productivity (TFP) and …

results in lower performance and heightened probability of accidents. …

This paper investigates the effect of inter-firm and intra-firm spillovers on the productivity of firms, using French … data. The Luenberger Productivity Indicator (LPI) is used to estimate the productivity and to break it down into several … components (e.g. efficiency, biased technical progress, scale effects, etc.). Using this approach, negative productivity changes …

increase of the Total Factor Productivity of the consumption sector. Physical and technological capital are not substitutable … technologies begin to have an impact on the productivity of the consumption sector. However, we show that once a certain level of …

country's productivity affects the productivity of other countries in the region and test the effectiveness of R&D in terms of … expenditure or investment in human capital on the productivity levels of countries in the region. The results suggest that of the …, private sector funded R&D, have a positive impact on these countries' productivity. In contrast, however, foreign investment …

We use a firm production function approach to generate estimates of total factor productivity (TFP) and labor … productivity in the manufacturing sector for a group of Latin American countries. We exploit these estimates to study the relative … position of countries within this sector and to explore the main correlates of firm productivity. We find that while the exact …

industrial reforms. Using data on Indian manufacturing firms, this paper analyzes the relationship between firm's productivity … that more productive firms become exporters, the results do not show that entry into export markets enhances productivity …. The paper examines the explanation of self selection hypothesis for total factor productivity differences across 33 …

productivity, applying the notion of pecuniary knowledge externalities. Pecuniary knowledge externalities enable one to appreciate … the hypothesis of an inverted U-shaped relationship between the agglomeration of innovation activities and productivity …