that China's productivity convergence remains at an early stage, with the industrial sector more advanced than services …

indicate that declines in factor inputs and productivity were both important determinants of the output fall. The contribution … of the productivity drop was critical, but smaller than previously reported. Possible causes of the reduction in … productivity are assessed using data on sub-national regions within Russia. Privatization and entry of private firms are found to …

A surge of exports in the 2000s helped Japan exit the severe decade-long stagnation known as the lost decade. Using … supply factors such as productivity gains, materialized after long-fought restructuring efforts during the lost decade …

A surge of exports in the 2000s helped Japan exit the severe decade-long stagnation known as the lost decade. Using … supply factors such as productivity gains, materialized after long-fought restructuring efforts during the lost decade …

Is Japan's aging and, more recently, declining population hampering growth and reflation efforts? Exploiting … had a significant negative impact on total factor productivity. Moreover, prefectures that aged at a faster pace … give strong support to the notion that demographic headwinds can have a non-trivial impact on total factor productivity and …

patterns have evolved between 2007 and 2017. Firm exit patterns have been heavily influenced by Japan's demographic trends, as …

Productivity growth in Japan, as in most advanced economies, has moderated. This paper finds supportive evidence for … the important role of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in explaining Japan's modest productivity growth. Results …. SMEs, on average, exhibit lower productivity growth than non-SMEs in Japan, with smaller and older SMEs showing …

This paper investigates the role played by total factor productivity (TFP) in the tradable and nontradable sectors of … the United States, the euro area, and Japan in the emergence and evolution of today''s global trade imbalances. Simulation … 1999, as well as account for some the surpluses in the euro area and Japan. Differences in TFP developments across sectors …

As labor input in Japan shrinks with population aging, capital accumulation and productivity gains will drive growth …

applies it to Japan. Using firm-level financial statement data, it estimates total factor productivity (TFP) of individual … Japanese firms. Given the estimated distribution of productivity across firms, the paper simulates the effect of optimal …