This paper assesses productivity trends in Canada vis-a-vis the United States from two perspectives. The first one is … based on estimates of total factor productivity. The second one decomposes productivity growth into two sources: investment … underlying cause of the pickup in productivity in Canada and the narrowing of the productivity gap with the United States. …

in Asia during the 1990s is found to be mainly from capital deepening. Total factor productivity (TFP) is also decomposed …

By the end of 2007, Chile's total factor productivity was lower than ten years earlier, a performance that contrasted … sharply with the previous decade, when productivity grew by a cumulative 30 percent. This paper assesses productivity trends … in Chile, by decomposing productivity into investment-specific technological change (associated with improvements in the …

We study the relative efficiency of outside-owned versus employee-owned firms and analyze implications for …

-monotonic relationship between institutional efficiency and the size of innovation. …

Traditionally, shocks to total factor productivity (TFP) are considered exogenous and the employment response depends … efficiency, rendering TFP endogenous to firms’ production decisions. We present robust cross-country evidence of a strong … reductions in TFP growth. These results have important policy implications, including that low productivity growth in some …

This report is an assessment of the CPSS-IOSCO Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures (PFMI) in Malaysia. The … central bank is in charge of the payment and settlement systems and the Securities Commission (SC) is in charge of regulation … and securities. The payment and security systems are elaborated along with the roles of Bursa Malaysia Securities Clearing …

background on the structure of energy production and trade in Malaysia, and presents results from empirical analysis of the oil …