The correlation between a firm’s size and its productivity level varies considerably across OECD countries, suggesting … that some countries are more successful at channelling resources to high productivity firms than others. Accordingly, we … examine the extent to which regulations affecting product, labour and credit markets influence productivity, via their effect …

measures perform well in regression analysis explaining productivity across OECD countries and over time. In OECD samples …

potential effects of fiscal decentralisation on a set of outcomes such as GDP, productivity, public investment and school …

policies to cross-country differences in productivity, innovation and resource allocation. This paper describes the steps taken … to and the trade-offs involved in constructing firm-level total factor productivity (TFP) measures using ORBIS, a cross … productivity measures can be calculated using readily available variables for all countries, and presents possible solutions to …

indicators and multifactor productivity (MFP) growth is also examined with a particular focus on the role of public policies in … productivity growth. However, direct empirical evidence of the positive effects of these policies on productivity is less …

This paper examines how import penetration affects firms' productivity growth taking into account the heterogeneity in … product market regulation measures depending on firms' positions along the global distribution of productivity levels. The … heterogeneous effects of international competition and domestic product market regulation on firm-level productivity growth are …

inter-related sources of labour productivity weakness: the survival of “zombie” firms (firms that would typically exit in a … misallocation and the increasing survival of low productivity firms have contributed to the productivity slowdown. …

This paper extends earlier OECD work exploring the link between skills mismatch, productivity and policies to include … with an increase in productivity of around 7% in New Zealand. …

This paper analyses for 34 OECD countries the extent to which the calculation of aggregate multi-factor productivity …