purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impacts of these changes in banking on total factor productivity. The authors first … obtain measures of bank level productivity by employing the techniques due to Levinsohn and Petrin (2003). They then relate … their private peers, and that privatization has increased productivity. "--World Bank web site …

and total factor productivity growth in small and large states in the South. There are three main findings. First …, productivity growth increases with North-South trade-related technology diffusion and education and the interaction between the two … their interaction on productivity growth in small states is more than three times that for large countries, with the …

the positive effect of liberalization on productivity when they do not account for the endogeneity bias. On the theory … positive impact of liberalization on productivity grows stronger when corrected for the endogeneity bias. "--World Bank web …"There is a growing literature that investigates the effect of trade liberalization on productivity. Nearly all such …

for greater capital accumulation, without being fully reflected in a higher rate of total factor productivity (TFP) growth … varieties exported to the United States. The author shows, in a panel data setting, that acquiring the technological capacity … Asian growth experience, these gains were stimulated by stellar improvements in technological capacity. "--World Bank web …