-Arrow-Romer externalities do not appear to be robust in our data. Landlocked status does not matter for productivity of regions in Japan. The …One account of spatial concentration focuses on productivity advantages arising from market size. We investigate this … for forty regions of Japan. Our results identify important effects of a region's own size, as well as cost linkages …

measure the impact of participation on the ex-post research productivity of the firm. We are able to find evidence that … frequent participation in these consortia has a positive impact on research expenditure and research productivity. These … firms' research productivity. Furthermore, we find evidence that part of this impact arises from the increased knowledge …

sources of the growth of output, labor productivity, and total factor productivity. The results show that resource …

We examine productivity growth since World War II in the five leading research economies: West Germany, France, the … United Kingdom, Japan, and the United States. Available data on the capital-output ratio suggest that these countries grew as … productivity, research, and patenting, we simulate the growth of the five countries, given initial productivity levels in 1950 and …

, and that a high rate of machinery investment is a necessary prerequisite for rapid long-run productivity growth - a …

Measures of productivity growth typically include in the Productivity "residual" the impacts of subequilibrium from … productivity growth can be attributed to production characteristics other than technical change, particularly scale economies …

roughly the same the U, S., Japan, and Europe. The cyclical analysis allows an estimate of trend productivity growth …This paper studies the dynamic behavior of changes in productivity, wages, and prices. Results are based on a new data …. Results are presented for the U. S., Japan, and an aggregate called "Europe" consisting of eleven European economies. The …

United States relative to Japan. High productivity growth in the traded sector of the Japanese economy results in a … continuous fall in the prices of traded goods relative to nontraded goods in Japan. In order to keep U.S. traded goods …

This paper presents a comparative analysis of productivity growth in the U.S. and Japanese electrical machinery … industries in the postwar period. This industry has experienced rapid growth in output and productivity and high rates of capital … inputs as well as the determinants of productivity growth in the U.S. and Japanese electrical machinery industry. The …

and productivity for changes in a country's terms of trade. We apply this procedure to a comparison of two major … industrialized countries, the U.S. and Japan. The approach is based on assessing the impact on, alternatively, production or final … comparison is carried out for a relatively open economy, Japan, with an economy that may not be as vulnerable to terms of trade …