, 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 …

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 …

The U.S. has been experiencing a slowdown in measured labor productivity growth since 2004. A number of commentators … challenges to this “mismeasurement hypothesis.” First, the productivity slowdown has occurred in dozens of countries, and its … output” resulting from the productivity growth slowdown. The largest—by some distance—is less than one-third of the …

rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT …-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …

innovation, and ICT investment being more important for productivity. For the median firm, rates of return to both investments …&D and ICT investment at the firm level in an effort to assess their relative importance and to what extent they are …) that has been modified to include ICT investment and R&D as the two main inputs into innovation and productivity. We find …

productivity or whether private and public returns to health IT diverge thereby justifying government intervention. We estimate the … change in hospital multi-factor productivity. Not-for-profits invested more heavily and differently in IT than for …