cost reduction on existing products as a source of productivity growth. This paper uses survey data and field interviews …

research productivity implies a substantial return to public investments in basic research …

dynamic productivity-based models are used to motivate the empirical exercise. The candidate determinants include productivity … sectoral productivity differentials is estimated with greater precision as long as homogeneity of parameters is imposed upon … most empirically successful model of the real exchange rate includes sectoral productivity measures in the long run …

new enterprises. After these reforms, however, it has taken a number of years before output and productivity have begun to … result, it takes time before the benefits of reform show up in increases in measured output and productivity. To establish a … that it takes 5-7 years until measured output and productivity begin to grow rapidly following reform. This finding …

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 …

productivity growth, and the exit rate leads all three of these. A vintage capital model in which all technological progress is … operational, both output and productivity increase …