period 1992-2000. The period can be characterized as a transition when long-run productivity growth in the Swedish economy … this dramatic change, the time trend and general index models are applied to estimate total factor productivity (TFP …

insights on the repercussions of the macro-economic reform policy agenda during the study period plagued by a productivity … slowdown and the productivity resurgence due to the emergence of the ‘new economy’ and now the challenges to sharpen the … provide superior testable insights on productivity and technical inefficiency than the rival non-parametric Data Envelopment …

Effects of R&D investment on frim/industry productivity have been investigated widely thanks to pioneering …

Many empirical studies have confirmed the positive impact of innovation on productivity at the firm level. The focus … on the other. To investigate the effect of different types of innovations on produc-tivity, we propose a model with two … a productivity equation. We find that ICT is an im-portant driver of innovation in both manufacturing and services …

The forest products sector in Canada has faced hard times since 2000. In terms of productivity growth, the sector as a … whole has performed poorly relative to the total-economy average. Labour productivity in the sector grew by 0.38 per cent …-par performance is entirely attributable to the paper manufacturing subsector, where labour productivity has collapsed since 2000. The …