In this paper we calculate and analyze the automobile industries cost and productivity experience during the 1970 's in … factor productivity (TFP) gross. This is achieved through a novel application of the Viner-Wng envelope theorem, which allows … energe. First, TFP grew much faster in the Japanese automobile industry (4.3% annum) than in the Canadian (1.4%) and U. S.(1 …

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

adopted – take time to be reflected in aggregate productivity statistics. Before mechanization, cotton spinning was performed … plant productivity distribution of new technology adopters in mechanized cotton spinning. We find that this distribution was … initially highly dispersed. Over the subsequent decades, mechanized spinning experienced dramatic productivity growth that was …

We introduce a growth model of technology diffusion and endogenous Total Factor Productivity (TFP) levels both at the … disparities in sectoral productivity levels as well as aggregate TFP that can be attributed to the differences in the range of …

directly test the hypothesis that FDI is a channel of knowledge spillovers for Japanese multinationals undertaking direct … investments in the United States. Using an original firm-level data set on Japanese firms' FDI and innovative activity find … evidence that FDI increases the flow of knowledge spillovers both from and to the investing Japanese firms …

Using a unique database on all Japanese manufacturing plants in the United States, we examine the relationship between …

end-of-period stocks. We also derive measures of productivity and capacity utilization for the adopted modeling framework …

returns to scale. Furthermore, the paper gives a decomposition of the traditional measure of total factor productivity growth …

efficiency-based productivity growth rates to exceed observed productivity growth in the slowdown period of 1974 - 1995 …