channels. First, trade raises productivity levels because producers gain access to new imported varieties. Second, increases in … that aggregates these micro gains to obtain an estimate of trade on productivity growth for each country. We find that in … the typical country in the world, new imported varieties account for 15 percent of its productivity growth. These effects …

appreciation because of differential productivity growth between tradable and nontradable sectors) using data of the APEC economies … Kong and Singapore grew fast, their real exchange rates appreciated only moderately. High productivity growth in service …

faster productivity growth. Although the use of instrumental variables goes a long way towards dealing with endogeneity …

has led many economists to believe that productivity growth in these economies, particularly in their manufacturing … productivity) gains from an outward orientation. This view fails to take into account the equally unusual rapid growth of both … envelope calculations to show that, as regards productivity growth in the aggregate economy and in manufacturing in particular …

In this paper we: (1) estimate the effects of international R&D spillovers on total factor productivity growth of the …

This study documents a significant inverse relationship between grievance rates and productivity. It is argued in the …

We develop a simple model of the choice between exploiting a technology in another country via export and via direct …

) definition of aggregate productivity growth, which aggregates plant-level changes to changes in aggregate final demand in the … technologies, one for each 4-digit SIC code. On average we find positive aggregate productivity growth of 2.2% in this sector … for both the theoretical literature on growth and alternative indexes of aggregate productivity growth based only on …

We define aggregate productivity growth as the change in aggregate final demand minus the change in the aggregate cost … and sunk costs, and market power. We compare our measure of aggregate productivity growth to several competing variants … differ substantially from these measures of aggregate productivity growth. We illustrate this using panel data from …