use of aggregate measures of Total Factor Productivity in growth accounting, and the sensitivity of such a variable to …

growth accounting, different estimates of total factor productivity emerge. The methodological difference, however, does not …

In a recent paper, Bloom et al. (2020) find evidence for a substantial decline in research productivity in the U …

This paper investigates the evolution of aggregate productivity and markups among French manufacturing firms between … 1994 and 2016, by focusing on the role of reallocation with respect to both aggregate measures. Firm-level productivity and … aggregate productivity growth of about 34% over the whole period while aggregate markups are found to remain relatively stable …

The last 20 years were a period of major political, economic, social, and institutional reform in Brazil. In the first … relative roles of ideology, policy packaging, and pragmatism in advancing reforms; how well reform implementation went; to what … change in development strategy, and more as a piecemeal, flexible, mostly disconnected reform process. Pragmatism led to …