of product market regulation on mark-ups, firm dynamics, investment, employment, innovation productivity, and output …

business environment variables at the subnational level in explaining firm employment and productivity growth. The analysis …

World Bank?s Long-Term Growth Model (LTGM), by separating the total capital stock into public and private portions, with the …

This is the background paper for the productivity extension of the World Bank's Long-Term Growth Model (LTGM). Based on … Penn World Table, and assesses the pattern of productivity growth across regions and income groups over the same sample … an extensive literature review, the paper identifies the main determinants of economic productivity as innovation …

This paper examines the role of changes in sectoral productivity gaps over time in accounting for growth realized by … countries over the past few decades. To quantify the productivity impact of the sectoral gaps, a simple model of resource … changes in distortions is because of unrealized gains suggested by high levels of present distortions, productivity gains are …

accumulation, and total factor productivity, unlike previous periods. Resources play a role by attracting capital inflows …

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 … with country-level data describing regulatory environments from the World Bank's Doing Business surveys, foreign direct …

This paper is about micro foundations of productivity and growth. There are several studies on productivity for … advanced economies but relatively few for developing countries. Using data from the investment climate surveys of the World … productivity at firm, industry and national levels, but total factor productivity progressively tapers off at each level of …