The paper investigates how changes in industries'' funding costs affect total factor productivity (TFP) growth. Based …

This paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in U.S. manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000 … during this period. Offshoring material inputs also has a positive effect on productivity, but the magnitude is smaller …, using instrumental variables estimation to address the potential endogeneity of offshoring. It finds that service offshoring …

and nature of industrial restructuring in Canada. The implications of industrial restructuring for the medium- and long … productivity may represent a cyclical phenomenon rather than a permanent increase in the rate of growth of productivity …

productivity in Canada. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and its predecessor, the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement …This paper examines the effect of the major Canada-U.S. trade agreements on the dynamics of business cycles and … business cycles in Canada and the United States since the early 1980s, country-specific and idiosyncratic factors remain …

This paper assesses productivity trends in Canada vis-a-vis the United States from two perspectives. The first one is … underlying cause of the pickup in productivity in Canada and the narrowing of the productivity gap with the United States … based on estimates of total factor productivity. The second one decomposes productivity growth into two sources: investment …

The paper investigates how changes in industries'' funding costs affect total factor productivity (TFP) growth. Based … distort the allocation of factors across firms even within an industry, reducing its TFP. The decline in productivity growth …

This paper estimates the effects of trade liberalization on plant productivity. In contrast to previous studies, we … distinguish between productivity gains arising from lower tariffs on final goods relative to lower tariffs on intermediate inputs …. Lower output tariffs can produce productivity gains by inducing tougher import competition whereas cheaper imported inputs …