productivity using firm-level data. First, a broader definition of innovation input is used in which research and development is …This paper investigates whether failure in innovation at the firm level can account for cross-country heterogeneity in … manufacturing productivity growth. There is no strong evidence in the literature on the existence of such link. Our work, however …

We present in this paper the panel econometrics estimation approach of measuring the technical change and total factor … productivity (TFP) growth of 30 Chinese provinces during the period of 1993 to 2003. The random effects model with heteroscedastic … variances has been used for the estimation of the translog production functions. Two alternative formulations of technical …