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 …

of three identified shocks – surprise TFP, news of future TFP, and "sentiment" – from the US to Canada. The US sentiment … business cycle comovement between the US and Canada, accounting for up to 50% of the forecast error variance of Canadian GDP …

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 …

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 …

competition from demand shocks in export markets – and the induced product mix reallocations – induce productivity changes within … the firm. We then empirically test for this connection between the demand shocks and the productivity of multi …-product firms exporting to those destinations. We find that the effect of those demand shocks on productivity is substantial – and …

-level productivity in a two-country DSGE model with heterogenous producers and an endogenous dynamic export participation decision. First …

sources of the growth of output, labor productivity, and total factor productivity. The results show that resource …