productivity growth. However, while there is a vast empirical literature analyzing the impact of financial openness on output … growth, far less attention has been paid to its effects on productivity growth. We provide a comprehensive analysis of the … relationship between financial openness and total factor productivity (TFP) growth using an extensive dataset that includes various …

has led many economists to believe that productivity growth in these economies, particularly in their manufacturing … productivity) gains from an outward orientation. This view fails to take into account the equally unusual rapid growth of both … envelope calculations to show that, as regards productivity growth in the aggregate economy and in manufacturing in particular …

productivity and the other decreasing transportation costs, and in which agglomeration economies lead to persistence in urban … locations. In countries that developed early, structural transformation due to rising agricultural productivity began at a time …

productivity growth, while the older literature focused on average productivity improvements ("learning"). We use comprehensive … role in aggregate productivity gains immediately following the start of India's trade reforms in 1991. However, aggregate … productivity gains during the overall 20-year period from 1985 to 2004 were driven largely by improvements in average productivity …

even for risk neutral multinationals, as their profit function is non-linear due to price and productivity effects. For … of productivity shocks in an emerging market producing the intermediate inputs reduces the multinationals' expected … in each country to productivity shocks, channeling the average employment from the more to the less volatile location …

' productivity growth, ii) net sovereign debt flows (government borrowing minus reserves) are negatively correlated with growth only …

Large gaps in labor productivity between the traditional and modern parts of the economy are a fundamental reality of … developing societies. In this paper, we document these gaps, and emphasize that labor flows from low-productivity activities to … high-productivity activities are a key driver of development. Our results show that since 1990 structural change has been …