This paper aims to examine the productivity change of the Japanese economy using the data pertaining to the 47 … prefectures during the period 1981-2000. The decomposition analysis of the Hicks-Moorsteen-Bjurek productivity index is conducted … to explore the sources of the productivity change. In summary, technical change and efficiency change are two of the most …

This paper decomposes Botswana's growth from the late 1960s through 2010 into a within-sector and a between …-sector (structural change) component. We find that during the 70s and 80s Botswana's rapid economic growth was characterized by … that this is one of the reasons for persistent poverty and very high income inequality in Botswana today. This leaves us …

, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this …

and capital are important for explaining procyclical productivity. Here I present two simple and direct tests of these …

We examine the productivity of public infrastructure in a general equilibrium context. In our model, infrastructure … monopoly power influences public capital's productivity effect. We test the model using state-level panel data. We confirm the … potentially important indirect channels by which public capital affects manufacturing productivity …

This paper presents the results of a study of the determinants of research productivity in the pharmaceutical industry … spillovers between firms may playa major role in increasing research productivity. The paper also speaks directly to the question …

measured total factor productivity. Over longer horizons. on the other hand, it is the activity level of suppliers that is more …

This paper seeks to explain the U-shaped relationship between farm productivity and farm scale - the initial fall in … productivity as farm size increases from its lowest levels and the continuous upward trajectory as scale increases after a …

empirical finding.Three elaborations to the basic production frontier framework are developed and used to interpret the accident-productivity …