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

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

) 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 …

Within-industry differences in measured plant-level productivity are large. A large literature has been devoted to … classification and regression trees. We use our imputations and the Bureau's imputations to estimate within-industry productivity … dispersions. The results suggest that there is more within-industry productivity dispersion than previous research has indicated …

, profitability, and productivity growth. Asymmetric information generates agency costs of debt and signaling benefits of dividends … benefits contribute 4.2 percent to total factor productivity growth, while agency costs reduce efficiency by 3.3 percent. Thus …

imputed data for at least one variable used to compute total factor productivity. The Bureau primarily imputes for missing …

This paper compares and analyzes the growth of productivity in the manufacturing industries and firms in France and the … U.S. based on newly assembled comparable data sets in both countries. Three explanations of the recent productivity … of R&D investment, and found not to bear on the differences in productivity growth between and within the two countries …

structure and productivity performance of twelve two-digit U.S. manufacturing industries. The results suggest that there are … their contributions to growth of labor productivity vary over time as well. Not only is the cost function shifted downward … in each industry, generating productivity inducement, but the factor demand in each industry is also affected by the two …