improve productivity downstream. We confirm such prediction by estimating a model of multifactor productivity growth in which … 1985-2007. Competitive pressures are proxied with sectoral product market regulation data. We find evidence that … to the productivity frontier …

between abatement costs and productivity. Other measures of environmental regulation faced by the plants (compliance status …We analyze the connection between productivity, pollution abatement expenditures, and other measures of environmental … regulation for plants in three industries (paper, oil, and steel). We examine data from 1979 to 1990, considering both total …

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 …

This paper presents estimates of the impact of OSHA and EPA regulation on productivity. Production information for 1450 … significantly lower productivity growth, and a greater productivity slowdown, than industries that faced lower regulation. Under … certain assumptions, the regulation is estimated to have reduced average industry productivity growth by .57 percent per year …

This study is an attempt to evaluate the effects of product and labour market regulations on industry productivity …-factor productivity is negatively and significantly influenced by both indicators of industrial prices from same industry and weighted … basis of their calibration by the OECD product and labour market anti-competitive regulation indicators suggests that nearly …

France. During the 1980s and 1990s Britain halted the relative declines in GDP per capita and labour productivity that had …

In this paper, we examine the sources of the productivity growth in the U.S. computer industry from 1978 to 1999. We … and product innovations. Based on the estimation results, we decompose total factor productivity (TFP) growth rate into …

. To understand how these changing firm demographics have affected growth, we decompose productivity growth into the firms …

20 years, analyzing its impact on consumers' welfare, the monopoly's profitability and its productivity. Though the …