at the micro level typically reduces total factor productivity at the macro level. Quantifying these effects is leading …

trade shifts the distribution towards higher average productivity due to entry and exit of firms. These models ignore the … assumption, produce in their 'birth nation.' We show that when firms are allowed to switch locations, new productivity effects … reinforces the big-nation productivity gain while reducing or even reversing the small-nation productivity gain. The small nation …

. The implications of the theory both for measurement and government policy are examined …

productivity. We investigate these phenomena further by examining the relationship between plant-level productivity and firm …-level R&D. We find that (1) the productivity-enhancing effects of parent firm R&D are diminished by geographic distance from … the research lab and `technological' distance between the product-field focus of the R&D and the plants; (2) productivity …

differences for tax policies between free and controlled migration, and the role of productivity gap …

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

through learning by doing. These models imply that increased specialization accelerates productivity growth by more fully … realizing dynamic economies of scale. In order to test the hypothesis that specialization increases productivity growth in LDCs … countries, the index of specialization is positively and significantly correlated with manufacturing productivity growth. We …

does not decline as much as output, resulting in large falls in measured productivity -- and from a theoretical perspective … productivity during a financial crises as the result of changes in the underlying technology of the economy, the efficiency with … changes in productivity, government spending, the terms of trade, and a country's international investment position. We apply …