developments in labour productivity, allowing for human capital accumulation, and multifactor productivity (MFP), allowing for … capita growth, while differences in labour productivity have remained broadly stable. These patterns are explained by …

corporate taxes on productivity and investment. Applying a differences-in-differences estimation strategy which exploits … effect on productivity at the firm level. The effect is negative across firms of different size and age classes except for … investment analysis, the results suggest that corporate taxes reduce investment through an increase in the user cost of capital …

This paper analyses how different tax policies can affect investment and productivity. To address this question the … differently by taxation. Investment is shown to respond negatively to an increase in the corporate tax rate and a decrease in … productivity tests the hypothesis that taxes affect productivity through different channels and that due to some salient industry …

product market, concerning in particular entry barriers, are negatively related to investment. The implications of our … analysis are clear: regulatory reforms, especially those that liberalise entry, are very likely to spur investment ... …

multifactor productivity (MFP), which plays a crucial role in GDP growth and accounts for a significant share of its cross … productivity. Both privatisation and entry liberalisation are estimated to have a positive impact on productivity. In manufacturing …

to developments in labour productivity - allowing for human capital accumulation – and multifactor productivity (MFP …

hypotheses about economic policies and other factors influencing factor productivity developments. A final section provides a …

-competitive reforms tend to increase both investment and multifactor productivity and, through both these channels, they can lead to …This paper assesses the implications of past and ongoing reforms in OECD product markets for the labour productivity … on capital deepening and technical progress by examining the impact of regulations on investment (domestic and foreign …

This paper surveys recent empirical studies exploring aggregate productivity growth based on firm dynamics, focusing on … micro-data from OECD countries. Aggregate productivity growth can be analysed as a sum of two separate processes. i) Changes … in productivity in individual firms at a given size (relative to market). And, ii) a reallocation process due to …

This paper reviews recent studies on the links between competition, innovation and productivity growth in the long run …