This paper examines the determinants of productivity in Japanese manufacturing industries, looking particularly at the … impact of product market competition on productivity. Using a newly available panel data on around ten thousand firms in …-cost margin, enhances productivity growth, controlling for a broad range of industrial and firm-specific characteristics. Moreover …

innovation will be required to preserve past productivity gains in the face of climate change, coevolving pests and diseases, and … changing technological regulations—let alone increase productivity. Great potential exists for innovation in crop and livestock …U.S. agriculture was transformed during the 20th century by waves of innovation with mechanical, biological, chemical …

profit-deviating preferences from the state-defined regulatory status of nonprofit production. We argue that this separation … is crucial in providing predictions about the underlying forces which allow the coexistence of nonprofit and for-profit … separating choice of nonprofit status from profit-deviating preferences, the paper provides predictions about the forces which …

This paper examines the impact of unionization on profit- ability, growth and productivity using time series data on … analysis is that information about union wage and productivity effects is not sufficient to permit prediction of the sign (or … negative union effects on profitability, but growth, productivity and the capital-labor ratio appear to be little affected by …

The purpose of this paper is to treat scale economies, profit-maximizing markups, economic profitability, capacity … utilization and productivity growth within an integrated structural model, and to assess their interactions empirically using … annual two-digit U.S. manufacturing data. Attention is focused on error biases in measuring productivity using traditional …

new enterprises. After these reforms, however, it has taken a number of years before output and productivity have begun to … result, it takes time before the benefits of reform show up in increases in measured output and productivity. To establish a … that it takes 5-7 years until measured output and productivity begin to grow rapidly following reform. This finding …