values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility …

"This paper investigates the impacts of cotton marketing reforms on farm productivity, a key element for poverty … productivity in cotton declined. With the improvement of the outgrower scheme of later years, farmers devoted larger shares of land … to cash crops, and farm productivity significantly increased"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site …

productivity growth at the aggregate and firm level during the post-war period. Growth is driven by the development of both (i … variance of aggregate productivity growth is determined mainly by the arrival rate of general innovations. Ceteris paribus, the … increase in firm-level volatility, and a decline in aggregate volatility. The effect on productivity growth is ambiguous. On …

prices and total factor productivity (TFP) with the aim of highlighting data patterns that are useful for evaluating business … run movements in total factor productivity and (ii) such stock prices innovations do not affect U.S. sectoral TFPs …

Firms that export or, even more so, are part of a multinational enterprise tend to exhibit higher productivity than … organization that one of the main drivers of differences in productivity is differences in knowledge. We examine a new data set of …

We examine how credit constraints affect the cyclical behavior of productivity-enhancing investment and thereby … a long-term productivity-enhancing one. Because it takes longer to complete, long-term investment has a relatively less …

in a region or sector, it is their productivity advantage that determines the positive effect on domestic firms in … measuring total factor productivity (TFP) of firms and to different empirical specifications …

considerations, whereas the second is governed by marginal profitability considerations. A positive productivity shock in the host … productivity conditions). Empirical literature on the determinants of FDI flows which uses the Tobit procedure aims at a correction …

Productivity spillovers are often cited as a reason for geographic specialization in production. A large literature in … show that a simple Roy model of patient treatment choice with productivity spillovers can generate these facts. Our model …

Starting from the same level of productivity and per-capita income as the United States in the mid-nineteenth century … productivity has almost converged, its income per person has leveled off at about three-quarters of America's. How could Europe be …