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

, distortions in the supply of non-traded inputs, and perverse incentives for informality creates a drag on productivity growth …

competitive barriers increase productivity to Western levels …

This paper examines the determinants of productivity in Japanese manufacturing industries, looking particularly at the … impact of product market competition on productivity. Using a newly available panel data on around ten thousand firms in …-cost margin, enhances productivity growth, controlling for a broad range of industrial and firm-specific characteristics. Moreover …

We estimate the rate of total factor productivity growth in Indian manufacturing industry for the period 1973-1992, and … it ignores the additional capital formation made possible by an increase in productivity and therefore understates … productivity's true importance. Our estimates suggest that the understatement may be quite large, and that one might better ask if …

condition holds, non-zero rates of growth of labor productivity will not destroy debt neutrality …

Real exchange rates between the yen and dollar based on general price indexes overestimate the competitiveness of the … United States relative to Japan. High productivity growth in the traded sector of the Japanese economy results in a … provides estimates of the relative wage changes which would have to occur to restore the competitiveness of U.S. traded goods …

establishments. Within the framework of a modified Cobb-Douglas production function, layoffs do not influence subsequent productivity …

This paper uses an integrated model of aggregate supply to analyze the post-1973 slowdown in productivity growth in the … cyclical factors. The model is therefore re-estimated, and the sources of productivity decline recalculated, on the hypothesis …