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 …

We study the impact of firm level choices of ICT, R&D, exporting and importing on the evolution of productivity and its … “techies”. We develop a methodology for estimating firm level productivity that allows us to measure both Hicks-neutral and … from 2009 to 2013. We find that techies and importing of intermediate inputs raise skill-biased productivity, while imports …

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 …

estimated with greater precision. The most empirically successful models include productivity measures, government spend- ing …

of international patents, country-level R&D productivity increases proportionally with the stock of ideas already …). Second, we find that ideas productivity in a given country is constant or declining in the worldwide stock of ideas. Ideas … effects of international knowledge spillovers. Finally, ideas productivity is concave in the size of the R&D workforce and the …

through which upstream sector anticompetitive regulations may impact productivity growth: business investments in R&D and in … relating productivity explicitly to R&D and ICT capital as well as to upstream regulations, and two factor demand functions … finding that the impact of upstream regulations on total factor productivity can be sizeable, and they provide evidence that a …

considerations, whereas the second is governed by marginal profitability considerations. A positive productivity shock in the host … productivity conditions). Empirical literature on the determinants of FDI flows which uses the Tobit procedure aims at a correction …