, and the effects of different investment profiles on total factor productivity growth on Dutch firm-level data. We estimate … an integrated model of investment profile adoption and total factor productivity growth. We find that the three … investment decisions are complementary, in the sense that investing in one increases the probability of investing in another one …

through which upstream sector anticompetitive regulations may impact productivity growth: business investments in R&D and in … relating productivity explicitly to R&D and ICT capital as well as to upstream regulations, and two factor demand functions … finding that the impact of upstream regulations on total factor productivity can be sizeable, and they provide evidence that a …

sources of the growth of output, labor productivity, and total factor productivity. The results show that resource …

, patented inventions, and total factor productivity) to identify a plausible model of endogenous technological change. In the US … (as well as in other developed countries) research employment and total factor productivity have both grown, while the …

) that has been modified to include ICT investment and R&D as the two main inputs into innovation and productivity. We find … innovation, and ICT investment being more important for productivity. For the median firm, rates of return to both investments …Both Research and Development (R&D) and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) investment have been identified …

&D indicators and measures of labor and total factor productivity, average wage and skill composition, on four panel data samples of … positive correlations with productivity, average wage and the share of administrative managers, as well as negative ones with …

total factor productivity and that they impact the degree of Ramp;D spillovers …

This paper presents a comparative analysis of productivity growth in the U.S. and Japanese electrical machinery … industries in the postwar period. This industry has experienced rapid growth in output and productivity and high rates of capital … inputs as well as the determinants of productivity growth in the U.S. and Japanese electrical machinery industry. The …

This paper extends previous research on the effect of investment on labor productivity at the country level by … accounting for investment in R&D, as well as for investment in fixed and human capital. Privately-funded R&D investment is found … to have a significant positive effect on productivity. Moreover, this effect appears to be quite large. The estimated …