, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, Canada we find a range of new results. We find that the reform-induced shift from producing low-value to …

We weigh into the debate about whether rising productivity is ever a consequence rather than a cause of exporting …. Exporting and investing to raise productivity are complimentary activities. For lower-productivity firms, incurring the fixed … foreign tariffs will induce these firms to simultaneously export and invest in productivity. In contrast, lower foreign …

A statistical agency faces several challenges in building Productivity Accounts. What started out as a request for … simple ratios of output to employment has moved to a demand for multifactor (total factor) productivity measures that take … productivity measurement. International comparisons of GDP have benefited immensely by the development of international standards …

productivity residuals in the United States and Canada. Using data on 19 manufacturing industries, we study the behavior of … productivity using three proxies for capital services. We find that adjusting for cyclical movements in capital utilization alters … many of the empirical characteristics of productivity, both within and across countries …

This is the first paper to directly measure and decompose total factor productivity growth (TFPG) for the Canadian life …

cost reduction on existing products as a source of productivity growth. This paper uses survey data and field interviews … United States and Canada between 1988 and 1992. The main result is that the determinants of cost reduction differ markedly …

The paper derives a consistent accounting framework for the treatment of inventories when measuring the productivity of … 9.6 percent per quarter total factor productivity growth rate over 6 quarters …

productivity is decomposed. Price-cost margins exert little influence but the rate of technological change, returns to scale and … the rate of capital adjustment determine productivity growth …

Measures of productivity growth typically include in the Productivity "residual" the impacts of subequilibrium from … productivity growth can be attributed to production characteristics other than technical change, particularly scale economies …