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 …

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 …

, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, Canada we find a range of new results. We find that the reform-induced shift from producing low-value to …

, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this …

heterogeneity in productivity and factor prices symmetrically. The strength of the proposed estimator is illustrated by Monte Carlo …

and capital are important for explaining procyclical productivity. Here I present two simple and direct tests of these …

We examine the productivity of public infrastructure in a general equilibrium context. In our model, infrastructure … monopoly power influences public capital's productivity effect. We test the model using state-level panel data. We confirm the … potentially important indirect channels by which public capital affects manufacturing productivity …