sector ownership has no independent impact on productivity growth. The finding that ownership per se does not matter, but …

countries matters for productivity, because a country that imports primarily from technological leaders receives more technology … trade patterns in determining technology flows that affect productivity by using industry level data for machinery goods … imports and productivity in eight OECD countries between 1970-91. First evidence that these countries benefit more from …

substantially reduces the agency problem and associated loss of productivity. Specifically, I demonstrate that local property tax … finance can attain about as much productivity as a social planner with centralized finance can, even if the social planner is …

these tasks are designed to be used by skilled workers, productivity in the LDCs will be low. Even when all countries have … factor productivity and output per worker. Our theory also suggests that productivity differences should be highest in medium … effect on the direction of technical change and on productivity differences …

efficiency-based productivity growth rates to exceed observed productivity growth in the slowdown period of 1974 - 1995 …

sustained growth. This transition is inevitable given positive rates of total factor productivity growth. We use a standard …

establishments with minority and majority ownership differ in terms of productivity levels? Secondly, does the degree of spillover … labor productivity and that domestic establishments benefit from spillovers. However, the degree of foreign ownership does … neither affect the level of labor productivity in foreign establishments, nor the degree of spillovers …

In this paper, we exploit establishment-level data to examine the relationship between microeconomic productivity … dynamics and aggregate productivity growth. After synthesizing the evidence from recent studies, we conduct our own analysis … establishments plays a significant role in accounting for aggregate productivity growth; (ii) for the selected service industries …

We examine the effect of air quality regulation on the productivity of some of the most heavily regulated manufacturing … stringency. We also construct measures of total factor productivity using plant level data which allow us to observe physical … regulations, productivity in the Los Angeles Air Basin refineries rose sharply during the 1987 - 1992 period, a period of …