Total Factor Productivity (TFP)is often used on the macro-economic level as an indicator of changes in efficiency of a … increasing and become positive after a (quite a) few years of transition. Many authors conclude that this is a gain in efficiency … increases in efficiency. To investigate this, the mathematical properties of TFP are analysed in order to generate new insights …

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 …

clustered over time, suggesting the possibility that technology levels are converging locally. Estimation of spatial versions of …