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 …

home country. This paper investigates the effects on productivity and trade from the perspective of transaction costs … suggests that the effect of offshoring manufacturing and services on total factor productivity (TFP) is positive and larger … than the effect of R&D on productivity. …

exploring trends in energy- and labour productivity across 10 manufacturing sectors and 14 OECD countries for the period 1970 … considerably to aggregate manufacturing energy-productivity growth and, hence, to decoupling, while in other countries they partly … manufacturing labour-productivity developments. Furthermore, we find labour-productivity growth to be higher on average than energy-productivity …

Measuring the dispersion of productivity or efficiency across firms in a market or industry is rife with methodological … to increase dispersion. This chapter presents a guide to measurement of dispersion and provides empirical evidence from a …

changing over time. Model-based procedures for the measurement of business cycles should therefore allow model parameters to … model specifications for the parameters are therefore not required. Parameter estimation is carried out in the frequency …