This study is an attempt to evaluate the effects of product and labour market regulations on industry productivity …-factor productivity is negatively and significantly influenced by both indicators of industrial prices from same industry and weighted … all countries could expect sizeable gains in multifactor productivity from deregulation reforms …

In many countries, unreliable inputs, particularly those lacking storage, can significantly limit a firm's productivity …. We estimate the losses in productivity due to factor-neutral and factor-biased effects of electricity scarcity. Our …. Finally, we find that these productivity changes, while costly to firms, led to small reductions in carbon emissions …

the productivity growth slowdowns experienced by most industrialized countries during that decade.The contention is that … measured output. Thus conventional productivity measures will be biased downward when such regulations are imposed. In this …" capital and then use this framework to devleop an adjustment to nonparametric measures of productivity growth, purging them of …

regulation, rather than changes in productivity and trade, account for most of the emissions reductions …

improve productivity downstream. We confirm such prediction by estimating a model of multifactor productivity growth in which … to the productivity frontier …

What do we know about the relationship between innovation and productivity among firms? The workhorse model of this … innovation are derived. The recent empirical evidence on the relationship between innovation and productivity in firms is then … surveyed. The conclusion is that there are substantial positive impacts of product innovation on revenue productivity, but that …

We develop a framework in which the host country productivity has a positive effect on the intensive margin (the size …-country productivity has a negative effect on the extensive margin. An increase in the host-country corporate tax rate reduces the actual …

How have labor market institutions and welfare-state transfers affected jobs and productivity in Western Europe …

Economists emphasize two channels through which import liberalization affects productivity, one operating between and … to 2002. First, in the long run, import liberalization lowers productivity in domestic industries through selection. This …, liberalization also generates technological learning that can on net raise domestic productivity. Third, for short time horizons of …

-producing country such as the U.S. is associated with a 0.15% lower level of productivity. Second, technological knowledge has become … more global over the sample period. As a determinant of productivity, foreign R&D has significantly gained in importance …