Inappropriate regulation can influence productivity performance by affecting incentives to invest and adopt new … technologies, as well as by directly curbing competitive pressures. Results of a labor productivity growth model for European … exports plus imports to gross domestic product -- have positive effects on productivity growth. In Romania a 10 percent …

than twice that of India's. This paper investigates the role of the business environment in explaining China's productivity … small firms, the importance of firm size in accounting for India's disadvantage in productivity, and the complementarity of …

corruption on productivity. Corruption is narrowly defined as the occurrence of informal payments to government officials to ease … the day-to-day operation of firms. The effects of this "bribe tax" on productivity are compared to the consequences of red … tax appears to have a negative impact on firm-level productivity, while the effect of the time tax is insignificant. At …

compares the level of labor productivity in 22 upper-middle-income countries and 11 high-income countries for which comparable … data are available. The results show that labor productivity in the upper-middle-income countries is about 57.5 percent … lower than in the high-income countries. The productivity difference is robust and holds for firms of different sizes and …