scale. An equivalent way of stating this assumption is that total factor productivity (TFP) for each industry is the same in …

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 …