This paper examines the impact on total factor productivity in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and in other … developing countries of trade-related technology diffusion from the North) (denoted by NRD), education, and governance, research …

-distributed firm productivity and fixed costs of exporting, predicts that, conditional on the fixed costs of exporting, all variation … lognormal distribution of firm productivity allows the Melitz model to successfully match the role of the intensive margin … methods and the EDD, a generalized Melitz model with a joint lognormal distribution for firm productivity, fixed costs and …

This paper is about micro foundations of productivity and growth. There are several studies on productivity for … productivity at firm, industry and national levels, but total factor productivity progressively tapers off at each level of …; (ii) capital accumulation is more important at the macro level than the micro level; (iii) productivity at the micro level …

productivity spillovers from foreign direct investment and trade only when the country has absorptive capacity in terms of research … evidence demonstrates that foreign direct investment and trade can contribute to overall domestic productivity growth only when … available in domestic firms. The paper proposes the terms research and development and labor quality to capture the innovative …

productivity. The fact that social interactions mainly occur within castes in rural India provides tools to show that the observed … correlation between farm productivity and neighbors' education is likely to be a spillover effect. In particular, there are no …