found that foreign participation is associated with higher productivity in the affiliates themselves. Spillovers to …

Delays at the border for customs clearance are seemingly a central feature of the trade regime in the CIS states. Here … other hand, corruption can be welfare improving if queuing costs are replaced by resource transferring bribes. We also show …

providing little or no incremental value. In this paper, we draw on macroeconomic models of diffusion and productivity to better … differences in the propensity to adopt technology can lead to wide and persistent productivity differences across countries -- or … productivity, and swamp the impact of traditional factor inputs. Holding technology constant, the marginal gains from spending on …

early 90s to drive a Japanese productivity slowdown. The model can reproduce the observed decline, relative to trend of Ramp …

The US has experienced a sustained increase in productivity growth since the mid-1990s, particularly in sectors that … intensively use information technologies (IT). This has not occurred in Europe. If the US quot;productivity miraclequot; is due to … located abroad. This paper shows in fact that US multinationals operating in the UK do have higher productivity than non …

In this paper we calculate and analyze the automobile industries cost and productivity experience during the 1970 's in … factor productivity (TFP) gross. This is achieved through a novel application of the Viner-Wng envelope theorem, which allows … correct for this source of productivity change would have led to a 31% under estimate of long-run TFP growth in Canada arid a …