productivity growth has been disappointing since the 1970s. We propose and empirically explore the hypothesis that slow growth …'s success in innovation depends on complementary innovations among its input suppliers, rapid productivity growth that is … productivity gains. Using data on input-output linkages, citation linkages, industry productivity growth and patenting, we find …

at the micro level typically reduces total factor productivity at the macro level. Quantifying these effects is leading …

The relative price of services rises with development. A standard interpretation of this fact is that productivity …-country income elasticity of sectoral productivity is large in non-traditional services (1.14), smaller in manufacturing (1.06) and … aggregate productivity and that the input-output structure is important in this assessment …

We study the impact of intersectoral and interregional trade linkages in propagating disaggregated productivity changes … of measured TFP, GDP, and employment to regional and sectoral productivity changes. We find that the elasticities vary …

to invest in telecommunications. Results indicate that the irreversibility premium raises the opportunity cost of capital … therefore average annual observed productivity growth overestimated the corrected rate by 33 percent …

-house confers a sector-neutral productivity advantage facilitating within-firm structural transformation. Consistent with the model …