productivity in Canada. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and its predecessor, the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement … productivity of Canadian industries, the persistence of structural differences between the two countries has prevented convergence … of aggregate labor productivity. While these findings seem to weigh against moving toward a monetary union, they also …

productivity growth in the tradable goods sector in Australia, New Zealand, and their major trading partners accounts for a …

as on the three main growth channels: total factor productivity, physical capital accumulation, and human capital … (CPMG) methodology of Pesaran et al. (1999) for estimation. The latter takes account of cross-country heterogeneity and …

open economy model when productivity shocks drive the business cycles and households have a normal intertemporal elasticity … fluctuations. These shocks, compared to productivity shocks, make consumption and investment more volatile and procyclical relative …

This paper examines the empirical relationship between trade and total factor productivity (TFP) in South Africa. It …

used determinants of total factor productivity, a measure of the effect of labor reallocation and an index of economic … suggest that growth will depend, to a large extent, on educational investments and productivity gains in agriculture. …

This paper employs newly constructed measures for productivity differentials, external imbalances, and commodity terms …-based real exchange rate and commodity terms of trade. The estimated impact of productivity growth differentials between traded …