) definition of aggregate productivity growth, which aggregates plant-level changes to changes in aggregate final demand in the … technologies, one for each 4-digit SIC code. On average we find positive aggregate productivity growth of 2.2% in this sector … for both the theoretical literature on growth and alternative indexes of aggregate productivity growth based only on …

We study how innovation and technology diffusion interact to endogenously determine the shape of the productivity …

empirical finding.Three elaborations to the basic production frontier framework are developed and used to interpret the accident-productivity …

This paper aims to examine the productivity change of the Japanese economy using the data pertaining to the 47 … prefectures during the period 1981-2000. The decomposition analysis of the Hicks-Moorsteen-Bjurek productivity index is conducted … to explore the sources of the productivity change. In summary, technical change and efficiency change are two of the most …

assess the empirical performance of Ricardo's ideas. We use novel agricultural data that describe the productivity in 17 … the productivity of each parcel of land in all crops, not just those that are currently being grown. This direct … information about relative productivity differences across economic activities allows us to compute, for the first time, the …

agriculture in the typical country, and particularly so in developing countries. Taken at face value, this "agricultural … productivity gap" suggests that labor is greatly misallocated across sectors. In this paper, we draw on new micro evidence to ask …

. For new technologies, the case of agriculture demonstrates that government has an important role in antitrust, the …