India's dramatic trade liberalization starting from 1991 on market efficiency and productivity growth using Indian … from the shrinking of market size experienced no change or falling total factor productivity (TFP) growth; whereas leather …

This paper examines the productivity effects of privately and publicly funded R&D, both performed in the private sector …. In doing so, it ascertains whether there are differences in the direct effects on an industry's total factor productivity … productivity effect, but with diminishing returns. Publicly funded R&D shows signs of increasing returns to scale, but the total …

aggregate productivity growth. We focus our attention on foreign firms and small firms for three reasons. First, industrial …-digit level industries for the 1983-2001 period. We decompose productivity growth into its components (structural change … analysis by firm ownership and size allows us to understand the sources of productivity contributions by foreign firms and …

We propose a mixture model approach to identify locally optimal technologies and to dissect environmental productivity …