efforts are affecting the dynamic relationship between environmental efficiency and economic productivity, turning it from an …

The aim of the paper is to investigate the effect of environmental stringency on innovation and productivity using a … innovation can be one of the channels through which higher sectoral productivity can be reached. The main findings suggest that … downstream stringency is the most relevant driver for innovation and that most of the effect of regulation on productivity is …

productivity and distorts the picture of what is happening in the economy. In this paper, we incorporate sweat equity in an … otherwise standard business cycle model. We use the model to analyze productivity in the United States during the 1990s boom. We … modest growth in productivity …

predictions of interest rates based on a general equilibrium theory are partially consistent with US data"--Federal Reserve Bank …

investigate the relation between firms' trading activities (importing, exporting or both) and productivity. We find important self … correlated within firms, failing to control for the importing activity leads to overstated average productivity premia of … exporters. -- Trade openness ; Firms' Heterogeneity ; Productivity …