technologies affect both productive efficiency and product quality in the recipient firms? Under what circumstances do firms pursue …

This paper surveys the recent literature which examines the impact of business climate variables on productivity and … drives growth by encouraging investment and higher productivity. Various infrastructure, finance, security, competition and …

(growth), micro (productivity at the firm level), and poverty (the earnings of poor/rural people). In addition, the paper …

factors (e.g., CFA overvaluation or recent conflict). Longer term factors such as capital accumulation, productivity, and … productivity estimates indicate that TFP per capita also grew until it hit a plateau in 1976-78, and then shrank thereafter …

Empirical explorations of the growth and productivity impacts of infrastructure have been characterized by ambiguous … indirect) channels of influence between infrastructure and productivity improvements. The authors explore these possibilities … alternative measures of productivity, the prevalence of ambiguous (countervailing signs) results, with little systematic pattern …

with formal institutions. Second, the impact of labor market institutions on productivity growth has probably been …

This paper tests whether structural or firm-specific characteristics contributed more to (labor) productivity growth in … the European Union between 2003 and 2008. It combines the Amadeus firm-level data on productivity and firm characteristics … characteristics are most important for firm productivity growth, particularly the stock of inward foreign direct investment and the …

agencies, but existing evidence suggests that these reforms will not improve bank stability or efficiency. While some countries …