Technological change can increase the productivity of the various factors of production in equal terms or it can be … biased towards a specific factor. We develop an estimator for production functions when productivity is multi-dimensional. We …

This paper examines two important components of the total factor productivity growth, namely technical change and … as by the existing evidences on the total factor productivity growth in Indian manufacturing industry. Technical change … during this period in all industries except in one. Thus the paper provides further insight into the productivity performance …

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 …

offshoring and domestic outsourcing with a firm panel. I find that offshoring of non-core activities has led to productivity … gains whereas offshoring of core activities and domestic outsourcing have had no such effects. The estimated productivity …The economic effects of offshoring have been subject to extensive empirical analysis in the past, but many studies have …

Since the mid 1900’s, economist have come to recognize the role of innovative activity in firms productivity growth …

This paper aims at measuring the impact of competition on productivity growth of the Tunisian manufacturing sector at … the firm level. To investi-gate the impact of competition on productivity we use two procedures. The first one is a two … competition raises TFP at the firm level. Competition policies provide sufficient incentives to increase productivity growth at …

This study investigates the impact of e-commerce and R&D on productivity, using a unique panel dataset obtained from …-commerce adoption. The empirical results show that both e-commerce and R&D capital have a positive influence on productivity, while R …&D exhibits a larger productivity-enhancing effect. We also find a complementary relationship between e-commerce and R&D on …

The main purpose of this study is to examine whether the relationship between exporting and productivity differs across … productivity gap becomes less important as firms become larger. There is evidence that the selection process for exporting is …

This study analyses the role played by adjustment costs and R&D investment prices in total R&D productivity. The … results show that on average, for each monetary unit increase in adjustment costs produces a fall in productivity of 0 …