higher rates of total factor productivity (TFP) growth than other plants in the same industry. The productivity impact of … LBOs is much larger than our previous estimates of the productivity impact of ownership changes in general. Management …

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 …

manufacturing productivity growth. Other research has suggested that, over the long run, growth in the U.S. economy's 'health output …

that their functional form of how foreign R&D affects domestic productivity via imports is probably incorrect. We provide …

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 …

This paper uses confidential Census longitudinal microdata to examine the association between R&D and productivity for …&D investment 2) higher returns to company-financed research 3) a productivity "premium" on basic research These results are robust …

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 extends previous research on the effect of investment on labor productivity at the country level by … to have a significant positive effect on productivity. Moreover, this effect appears to be quite large. The estimated …