empirical finding.Three elaborations to the basic production frontier framework are developed and used to interpret the accident-productivity …

) definition of aggregate productivity growth, which aggregates plant-level changes to changes in aggregate final demand in the … reallocations and plant-level technical efficiency changes while allowing in the estimation for 459 different production … technologies, one for each 4-digit SIC code. On average we find positive aggregate productivity growth of 2.2% in this sector …

to explore the sources of the productivity change. In summary, technical change and efficiency change are two of the most …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 …

for capital. We find a negative cross-country correlation between the efficiency of unskilled labor and the efficiencies … this frontier, increases in the efficiency of unskilled labor are obtained at the cost of declines in the efficiency of …

find that a 0.01 increase in the import share leads to a 1.05% gain in technical efficiency. This elasticity translates …

We study how innovation and technology diffusion interact to endogenously determine the productivity distribution and … productivity distribution. With finite support, the aggregate growth rate cannot exceed the maximum growth rate of innovators …

We study the impact of firm level choices of ICT, R&D, exporting and importing on the evolution of productivity and its … "techies". We develop a methodology for estimating firm level productivity that allows us to measure both Hicks-neutral and … from 2009 to 2013. We find that techies and importing of intermediate inputs raise skill-biased productivity, while imports …

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