-up mechanism through capital accumulation where technology is embodied in new capital goods. Using a putty-clay model of production …, including persistently high but declining rates of labor and total-factor productivity growth, a U-shaped response of the …

We study the impact of techies--engineers and other technically trained workers--on firm-level productivity. We first …-skill intensive and are associated with innovation, as well as with technology adoption, management, and diffusion within firms. Using … structural econometric methods, we estimate the causal effect of techies on firm-level Hicks-neutral productivity in both …

consequences of changing firm concentration: productivity, distortions, selection into exporting, scale economies, and … firms is attributable to higher productivity growth rather than differential distortions. Exceptional performance of the top …

leaders. We find strong evidence of technological diffusion but not full convergence; differences in total factor productivity …

persistence of productivity growth differentials between nations despite a common technology, constant returns to scale and … specification. The source of productivity (growth) differentials in our model is the existence of a non-traded capital good ('human … consider the influence on productivity growth differentials of private thrift, public debt, the taxation of capital and savings …

the central role of political and economic institutions, as well as the endogenous evolution of technology, in shaping the …

remainder. The productivity performance of the non-agricultural economy during the reform period is respectable, but not …

the initial productivity of a new technology. After implementation, learning increases the productivity of a technology to …We introduce a tractable model of endogenous growth in which the returns to innovation are determined by the technology … adoption decisions of the users of new technologies. Technology adoption involves an implementation investment that determines …