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

monopoly power influences public capital's productivity effect. We test the model using state-level panel data. We confirm the …We examine the productivity of public infrastructure in a general equilibrium context. In our model, infrastructure … lowers costs in a manufacturing sector characterized by both firm-level returns to scale and industry-level external returns …

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 … technologies, one for each 4-digit SIC code. On average we find positive aggregate productivity growth of 2.2% in this sector … for both the theoretical literature on growth and alternative indexes of aggregate productivity growth based only on …

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 …

, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this …