proportionally during upturns; (iv) average R&D investment and productivity growth are more negatively correlated with sales …

Trend productivity growth is a crucial determinant of future living standards as well as fiscal balances. In this … article, Benoit Robidoux and Bing-Sun Wong from Finance Canada examine the issue of whether trend productivity growth has … authors find that Canada experienced a greater pick-up in total factor productivity growth than the United States. Increased …

Dirk Pilat and Paul Schreyer of the OECD discuss the new OECD Productivity Database. The database covers 26 OECD … countries for labour productivity estimates, as well as 14 countries for multifactor productivity estimates. While the database … represents the most comparable productivity estimates that are currently available for cross-OECD comparisons, the authors also …

This description, produced within the CIRANO research program on productivity, seeks to unearth the innovative economic …

This description, produced within the CIRANO research program on productivity, seeks to unearth the innovative economic …

1993 and 2001 have exerted on productivity growth. We give theoretical arguments explaining the impact of the real exchange … rate on productivity via its effects either on efficiency growth or on technical progress. Then for the twenty-nine Chinese … provinces we calculate the growth of the productivity and of its two components, using DEA Malmquist index. Finally we present a …

developments assesses whether an acceleration of productivity growth, the touchstone of the New Economy, is likely to occur in … concludes that an acceleration in productivity in Europe is likely, as is a continuation of strong productivity gains in the …