affecting productivity. By contrast, sentiment shocks in non-G7 countries predict prolonged economic growth and a corresponding … increase in productivity. The results suggest that sentiment can indeed create economic booms, but only in less advanced …

A positive correlation between productivity and export market participation has been well documented in producer micro … investment activities, particularly investments in R&D or new technology, that both raise productivity and increase the payoff to … set of interactions between R&D, exporting, and productivity. The self- selection of high productivity plants is the …

This paper examines two potential channels of knowledge acquisition that underlie firm productivity growth in the … effects of these investments on the firm's future total factor productivity. The empirical model consists of four equations … firm's future productivity trajectory while controlling for the potential selection bias introduced by endogenous firm exit …

&D investment and total factor productivity at firm level. Based on a sample of 136 large manufacturing firms listed on the Taiwan …This study sets out to estimate the impact of R&D on productivity within the private sector, with further analysis of … Stock Exchange over the period 1994-2000, our findings suggest that Taiwan's R&D investment had a significant impact on firm …

, including the distribution of output and productivity across firms and the magnitude of entry and exit flows. It has been argued … that despite many outward similarities, two of the most successful Southeast Asian economies, Taiwan and South Korea … Taiwan and identify a number of systematic differences in industry structure between the two countries. Our empirical …

, the evidence of self-selection on the basis of productivity is much weaker. In addition, unlike Taiwan, we find no …While there is widespread empirical evidence indicating exporting producers have higher productivity than nonexporters … methods, inputs, and product designs from their international contacts, and this learning results in higher productivity for …

The manufacturing sector in Taiwan has a market structure composed of large numbers of small firms, a focus on less … inefficient firms to exit. As a result, low cost entry and exit may help improve aggregate productivity by allowing for the rapid … the Taiwanese Census of Manufactures for 1981, 1986, and 1991, we measure differences in total factor productivity among …

of Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. Participation rates, educational levels and (with the exception of Hong … quadrupling of the investment to GDP ratio in these economies, one arrives at total factor productivity growth rates, both for the … productivity in these economies is not …

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

"This paper investigates the impacts of cotton marketing reforms on farm productivity, a key element for poverty … productivity in cotton declined. With the improvement of the outgrower scheme of later years, farmers devoted larger shares of land … to cash crops, and farm productivity significantly increased"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site …