Productivity growth is a key determinant of rising living standards. The agricultural sector has been an important … contributor to the overall growth of productivity in New Zealand. The average rate of multifactor productivity growth in … agriculture from 1926-27 to 2000-01 was 1.8%. We find evidence that this rate has been increasing especially since the reforms of …

is treated as a Poisson-type cyclic stochastic process. The technology spillovers effect acts as a driving force of …

positive knowledge spillovers, but the effects of intra-industry trade are ambiguous. With regard to sectoral import … penetration, we find that potential positive spillovers are dominated by negative competition effects. This, however, masks the …

positive knowledge spillovers, but the effects of intra-industry trade are ambiguous. With regard to sectoral import … penetration, we find that potential positive spillovers are dominated by negative competition effects. This, however, masks the …

In this paper, we aim to bring the debate on the global productivity slowdown – which has largely been conducted from a … macroeconomic perspective – to a more micro-level. We show that a particularly striking feature of the productivity slowdown is not … so much a lower productivity growth at the global frontier, but rather rising labour productivity at the global frontier …

Panel data is used to investigate the extent of R&D spillovers between OECD countries, and the importance of barriers … to technology adoption in affecting the benefits of such spillovers. Our results indicate that countries with less … regulated goods and labour markets benefit more from foreign R&D. -- R&D spillovers ; technology adoption ; economic growth …

productivity differ in the two solutions. Thus, optimal policy intervention has no effect on long-run growth rates but affects …