Explanations of procyclical productivity play a key role in a variety of business-cycle models. Most of these models … aggregate productivity changes into several terms, each of which has an economic interpretation. However, many of these terms …

In this paper, we exploit establishment-level data to examine the relationship between microeconomic productivity … dynamics and aggregate productivity growth. After synthesizing the evidence from recent studies, we conduct our own analysis … establishments plays a significant role in accounting for aggregate productivity growth; (ii) for the selected service industries …

values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility …

effect of spillovers on research productivity of firms exceeds the structural effect because it includes an active learning …

, productivity is higher. The probabilistic matching model of Diamond, Mortensen, and others provides a way to make the idea of …

such models in analyzing the production structure, the determinants of variable and quasi-fixed factors, and productivity … growth. The paper also discusses the traditional approach to productivity analysis based on the Divisia index number …

sector ownership has no independent impact on productivity growth. The finding that ownership per se does not matter, but …

countries matters for productivity, because a country that imports primarily from technological leaders receives more technology … trade patterns in determining technology flows that affect productivity by using industry level data for machinery goods … imports and productivity in eight OECD countries between 1970-91. First evidence that these countries benefit more from …