Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are commonworldwide, but rigorous micro …

trends. Comparing productivity levels across countries is notoriously tricky, but one attractive approach has been to deflate …

constructs measures of relative total factor productivity for eleven Japanese manufacturingindustries and uses dynamic panel data … methods to test whether a smaller productivity gap leadsto slower growth, and whether R&D takes over as the engine of growth … as Japan approaches thetechnological frontier. The results suggest that Japanese and US productivity have been growingat …

of the standard Solow productivity residual. Theequivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility while …

We reappraise the relationship between productivity and equilibrium real exchangerates using a panel estimation … ofnon-traded, as well as traded, sector productivity shocks in exchange ratedetermination. We find evidence of significant … correlation between real exchangerates and productivity differentials in both sectors. But our finding of a significant rolefor …

econometric analysis of the contributionof public agricultural research capital to state agricultural productivity is reported … rate. New TFP results show that public agricultural research capitalcontributes significantly to agricultural productivity …