Major European countries, unlike the United States, did not experience an acceleration in labour productivity growth in … 1980-2000 period. They find that total factor productivity growth picked up considerably in the second half of the 1990s … relative to the first half, but that labour productivity growth actually decelerated. This latter development was related to …

second part of our analysis, we estimate the impacts of our new measures on Total Factor Productivity (TFP) in the framework …

The paper focuses on the influence of upstream competition for productivity outcomes in downstream sectors. This …. Thus, lack of competition in upstream markets curbs incentives to improve productivity downstream, negatively affecting … productivity outcomes. We test this prediction by estimating an error correction model that differentiates the potential downstream …

improve productivity downstream. We confirm such prediction by estimating a model of multifactor productivity growth in which …Based on an endogenous growth model, we show that intermediate goods markets imperfections can curb incentives to … anticompetitive upstream regulations have curbed MFP growth over the past 15 years, more strongly so for observations that are close …