output. We find that public capital accounts for about half of the post-1973 productivity slowdown, but only plays a minor … role in the partial recovery of labor productivity growth since the mid 1980s. The largest contribution to that (partial …

This paper investigates the deindustrialization and welfare effects of infrastructure aid in developing countries. In … the short run, cost-saving infrastructure aid in the export sector increases the domestic wage rate, whereas the same aid … infrastructure aid. Infrastructure aid in the nontraded sector has no effect on domestic factor prices. Laborsaving infrastructure …

One objective of government investment is to develop public infrastructure which may reduce private sector costs. In a … recent fiscal adjustment in Mexico is that it has been carried out, in part, by depleting public infrastructure stocks ….We estimate the effects of public infrastructure on private sector costs in Mexico and calculate the implied optimal …

productivity gains. Guided by theory, we provide evidence consistent with these effects operating through reallocations across … productivity, while import liberalization has ambiguous effects. Resource misallocation can either amplify, dampen or reverse the … firms in the presence of distortions: (i) Both export and import expansion increase average firm productivity, but the …

What drove the UK productivity slowdown post-GFC, and how is the post-Covid recovery expected to differ? This paper …

this paper, we investigate whether higher productivity causally leads to lower tax evasion. We first present stylized facts … emerging and developing economies. Our results suggests that productivity improvements by firms can lead to lower tax evasion …