Significant changes in the external orientation of manufacturing industries are observed in the United States, Canada …

, and that a high rate of machinery investment is a necessary prerequisite for rapid long-run productivity growth - a …

Measures of productivity growth typically include in the Productivity "residual" the impacts of subequilibrium from … productivity growth can be attributed to production characteristics other than technical change, particularly scale economies …

correct for this source of productivity change would have led to a 31% under estimate of long-run TFP growth in Canada arid a …In this paper we calculate and analyze the automobile industries cost and productivity experience during the 1970 's in … Canada, the U.S.and Japan. Utilizing an econometric cost function methodology, we are able to isolate the major source of …

) definition of aggregate productivity growth, which aggregates plant-level changes to changes in aggregate final demand in the … technologies, one for each 4-digit SIC code. On average we find positive aggregate productivity growth of 2.2% in this sector … for both the theoretical literature on growth and alternative indexes of aggregate productivity growth based only on …

) that has been modified to include ICT investment and R&D as the two main inputs into innovation and productivity. We find … that R&D and ICT are both strongly associated with innovation and productivity, with R&D being more important for … innovation, and ICT investment being more important for productivity. For the median firm, rates of return to both investments …

We present the first comprehensive set of firm-level total factor productivity estimates for China's manufacturing … sector that spans her entry into WTO. We find that productivity growth is among the highest compared to other countries. For … our preferred estimate, the weighted average annual productivity growth for incumbents is 2.7% for a gross output …

, and the effects of different investment profiles on total factor productivity growth on Dutch firm-level data. We estimate … an integrated model of investment profile adoption and total factor productivity growth. We find that the three …

manufacturing industries. The estimated elasticities of productivity with respect to Ramp;D capital are significant and plausible …

success from firm surveys along with the usual Ramp;D expenditures and productivity measures. We then apply the model to data … both process and product innovation. Both these kinds of innovation have a positive impact on firm's productivity …