-open-economy real-business-cycle model driven by nonstationary productivity shocks. We find that the RBC model does a poor job at … business cycles in emerging markets and, importantly, assigns a negligible role to nonstationary productivity shocks …

Dual estimates of productivity growth by Chang-Tai Hsieh have raised questions about the accuracy of the East Asian … national accounts, suggesting that productivity growth in the NICs, particularly Singapore, may have been substantially higher …

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 …

productivity and the other decreasing transportation costs, and in which agglomeration economies lead to persistence in urban … locations. In countries that developed early, structural transformation due to rising agricultural productivity began at a time …