This paper contributes to the productivity literature by using results from firm-level productivity studies to improve … forecasts of macro-level productivity growth. The paper employs current research methods on estimating firm-level productivity … to build times-series components that capture the joint dynamics of the firm-level productivity and size distributions …

Total Factor Productivity (TFP)is often used on the macro-economic level as an indicator of changes in efficiency of a … Productivity of Mongolia was tested not only for errors in all estimated values but also for measurement errors in the data. It was …

literature. In contrast, studies on relative location tend to be weakly linked to theory, but apply relatively sophisticated … appropriateness of such models, and identify areas of potential concern. The rather weak linkage between theory and operational models …

Total factor productivity of twenty OECD countries for a recent period (1971-2002) is explained using six different …