below trend - and total factor productivity (TFP), using a panel of 71 developed and developing countries during the period …

productivity gains for domestic firms. The size of FDI spillovers is economically important, accounting for about 14% of … productivity growth in U.S. firms between 1987 and 1996. In addition, there is some evidence for imports-related spillovers, but it …

move from higher-value to lower-value activities despite strong aggregate labor productivity growth (ALP). These papers use … sets. We show that there is no puzzle when one decomposes aggregate productivity growth in the terms of National Accounts …

general pattern of productivity growth and industrial development. This paper surveys the literature on services trade …

differentiated by productivity, and where tradability is endogenously determined. Firms experiencing productivity gains are more … likely to become tradable and crowd out firms not experiencing productivity gains. As a result the usual Balassa …-Samuelson assumption - that productivity gains be concentrated in the traded goods sector - emerges endogenously, and the Balassa …

This paper estimates the impact of financial development on industry-level total factor productivity (TFP) growth using …

productivity growth - is observed for foreign direct investment (FDI) flows, which should be particularly sensitive to productivity …, construction, mining/petroleum/utilities, and tourism sector. By contrast, we show that countries with faster productivity growth … role for financial openness: a country with fast productivity growth draws in more FDI into its service sectors only when …

productivity heterogeneity. The model brings theory and data closer along a key dimension: it generates positively related prices …