our measure into technical efficiency and reallocation components. This requires us to confront the "non …

I develop a new theory of marketing costs and introduce it into a model of trade with product differentiation and firm …

compare and contrast productivity growth up through 2015 starting from 1950 in the U.S. and from 1972 in the EU-10. Data are … the inventions that propelled U.S. productivity growth in the first half of the 20th century, and the next EU-10 stage for …-95 for the EU-10 as well as its industrial composition matched very closely the growth record of the U.S. in the previous …

. Using industry-level data from EU KLEMS, we find that most of the 1995-2005 U.S. productivity growth revival was driven by … the U.S. and the EU-10 suffered a growth slowdown, indicating that the benefits of the ICT revolution were temporary … aggregate of ten Western European nations (the EU-10) from 1977 to 2015. We find that the standard growth accounting approach is …

as large as that in the United States. Reducing it to the US level would increase EU GDP by more than 30 percent …. Alternatively, removing barriers between industries and countries would raise EU GDP by at least 25 percent. Firm characteristics …

The paper models the host country stylistically as a member of the core of an economic union (i.e., a core EU welfare …. The source country is modeled as an accession country to an economic union (i.e., through the EU enlargement treaty), with …