(agriculture, manufacturing and services) characterized by different productivity gains and by saturation levels in the demands of …

This paper asks whether increasing productivity in the electricity sector can yield larger long-run GDP gains than …

We study how financial frictions affect firm-level heterogeneity and trade. We build a model where productivity …

this paper, we investigate whether higher productivity causally leads to lower tax evasion. We first present stylized facts … emerging and developing economies. Our results suggests that productivity improvements by firms can lead to lower tax evasion. …

Historical data for over hundred years and 14 countries is used to estimate the long-run effect of productivity on the … real exchange rate. We find large variations in the productivity effect across four distinct monetary regimes in the sample … argue that changes in trade costs over time may affect the impact of productivity on the real exchange rate over time. We …

This paper studies theoretically and empirically why and how labor policies may reduce productivity and employment in …

Does the concept of General Purpose Technologies help explain periods of faster and slower productivity advance in …, Britain, France, Germany and Japan and proceeds to evaluate the hypothesis of a productivity bonus as postulated by many … there was no generalized productivity boost from electrical power diffusion as postulated by many existing GPT models. The …