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 …

We compute rates of growth in labor productivity during the 1973-80 period for samples of individual manufacturing … contribution of such expenditures to productivity growth was about the same in both countries. Hence, the rather large differences … on the observed rates of productivity growth between the two countries can not be accounted for by differences in either …

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

A comparative study of the contribution of R&D to firm-level productivity in French and United States manufacturing … control for both sources of estimation bias, and we find 1) overall, the contribution of R&D to sales productivity growth …

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 …

in our model are caused by declines in expected returns, increases in expected profitability, or increases in prior … uncertainty about average profitability. The model predicts that IPO waves are preceded by high market returns, followed by low …

have high industry-level dispersion of profitability have on average higher market-to-book ratios than firms in low … dispersion industries. This positive relation between market-to-book ratios and industry profitability dispersion is economically …

negative union effects on profitability, but growth, productivity and the capital-labor ratio appear to be little affected by …This paper examines the impact of unionization on profit- ability, growth and productivity using time series data on … analysis is that information about union wage and productivity effects is not sufficient to permit prediction of the sign (or …