productivity in the South and aggregate technology used by the South both turn out to be higher …

This paper provides the first estimates of within-industry heterogeneity in energy and CO2 productivity for the entire … U.S. manufacturing sector. We measure energy and CO2 productivity as output per dollar energy input or per ton CO2 … emitted. Three findings emerge. First, within narrowly defined industries, heterogeneity in energy and CO2 productivity across …

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

This paper aims to examine the productivity change of the Japanese economy using the data pertaining to the 47 … prefectures during the period 1981-2000. The decomposition analysis of the Hicks-Moorsteen-Bjurek productivity index is conducted … to explore the sources of the productivity change. In summary, technical change and efficiency change are two of the most …

We introduce a growth model of technology diffusion and endogenous Total Factor Productivity (TFP) levels both at the … disparities in sectoral productivity levels as well as aggregate TFP that can be attributed to the differences in the range of …

. Long-run identifying restrictions are used to decompose productivity, hours, and output into technology shocks and non …

I estimate a model in which new technology entails random adjustment costs. Rapid adjustments may cause productivity …