The empirical growth literature has focused on capital accumulation but largely ignored productivity growth. To address … this imbalance, we propose a methodology for analyzing productivity convergence based on frontier production functions. We … importance of efficiency changes for economic growth. Using a sample of 26 OECD countries from 1965-90, we find convergence and …

a strong positive casual relationship between manufacturing productivity growth and output growth, due to static and …This study first provides an outline of Kaldor's growth model and then tests its relevance to the economic experience … manufacturing is the engine of economic growth, whereas the second proposition, also known as Verdoorn's law, asserts that there is …

The effects of public debt on economic growth are analyzed in an augmented neoclassical growth model with AK …

between different diversification strategies and farm performance (farm growth rates). The results of fixed- and random … products increases growth rates whereas the opposite applies for diversification into unrelated products. Initial farm size has … a significant and negative impact on the rate of growth which implies ßconvergence of farm sizes. …

We examine German stock corporations' executive compensation's growth over the last 15 years. Furthermore, we … investigate how executive compensation might develop in the future. Over the past 15 years we observe dynamic growth of executive … these high growth rates in the past is the introduction of long-term incentives which has been technically easily …