This paper examines the impact of the operations of foreign-owned multinational firms on the productivity growth of …-owned firms affects the productivity of local firms in that sector and whether there is any evidence of convergence between that … industry's productivity level and that of the United States. The main results can be summarized as follows: First, productivity …

The age structure of capital plays an important role in the measurement of productivity. It has been argued that the … productivity measurement. A proposition proves that Nelson's (1964) formula is wrong. Our final proposition shows that inclusion of … the vintage effect prompts an upward correction of measured productivity growth in times of an aging stock of capital …

annual Census Bureau information on 116 pulp and paper mills' vintage, technology, productivity, and pollution abatement … operating costs for 1979-1990. We find a significant negative relationship between pollution abatement costs and productivity … deviation increase in abatement costs is predicted to reduce productivity by 5.4 percent. Older plants appear to have lower …

We analyze the connection between productivity, pollution abatement expenditures, and other measures of environmental … factor productivity levels and growth rates. Plants with higher abatement cost levels have significantly lower productivity … with the equivalent of $1.74 in lower productivity for paper mills, $1.35 for oil refineries, and $3.28 for steel mills …

is positively related to industry productivity growth. The effects are very modest -- adding at most 0.07 percentage … points to annual labor productivity growth …

This paper presents estimates of the impact of OSHA and EPA regulation on productivity. Production information for 1450 … significantly lower productivity growth, and a greater productivity slowdown, than industries that faced lower regulation. Under … certain assumptions, the regulation is estimated to have reduced average industry productivity growth by .57 percent per year …

We analyze the connection between productivity, pollution abatement expenditures, and other measures of environmental … total factor productivity, both levels and growth rates, and both annual measures and averages over the period. We find a … strong connection between regulation and productivity when regulation is measured by compliance costs. More regulated plants …

This paper provides technical documentation to accompany the NBER manufacturing productivity (MP) database. The … estimates of total factor productivity (TFP) growth for each industry. The paper further discusses alternate methods of …