This study documents a significant inverse relationship between grievance rates and productivity. It is argued in the …

In this paper we: (1) estimate the effects of international R&D spillovers on total factor productivity growth of the …

considerations, whereas the second is governed by marginal profitability considerations. A positive productivity shock in the host … productivity conditions). Empirical literature on the determinants of FDI flows which uses the Tobit procedure aims at a correction …

of international patents, country-level R&D productivity increases proportionally with the stock of ideas already …). Second, we find that ideas productivity in a given country is constant or declining in the worldwide stock of ideas. Ideas … effects of international knowledge spillovers. Finally, ideas productivity is concave in the size of the R&D workforce and the …

dynamic productivity-based models are used to motivate the empirical exercise. The candidate determinants include productivity … sectoral productivity differentials is estimated with greater precision as long as homogeneity of parameters is imposed upon … most empirically successful model of the real exchange rate includes sectoral productivity measures in the long run …

estimated with greater precision. The most empirically successful models include productivity measures, government spend- ing …

This study is an attempt to evaluate the effects of product and labour market regulations on industry productivity … through their various impacts on changes in production prices and wages. In a first stage, the estimation of a regression …-factor productivity is negatively and significantly influenced by both indicators of industrial prices from same industry and weighted …

through which upstream sector anticompetitive regulations may impact productivity growth: business investments in R&D and in … relating productivity explicitly to R&D and ICT capital as well as to upstream regulations, and two factor demand functions … finding that the impact of upstream regulations on total factor productivity can be sizeable, and they provide evidence that a …