, increasing productivity - via knowledge and network externalities - output and employment). As a result, we first point out the … approach, we assert that the social compromise between capital and labour is founded on the redistribution of the productivity … productivity growth. We think that describing the dynamics of productivity means understanding the main features of the …

Economists, business analysts, and policymakers have all focused considerable attention on U.S. productivity growth in … recent years. This paper presents a broad overview of productivity …

labor market flexibility, in a general equilibrium model of dynamic labor demand where the productivity of firms evolves ….e. unexpected changes in the drift and standard deviation of the stochastic process describing the dynamics of productivity, depends … workers with idiosyncratic productivity below some threshold value. A more volatile environment, and a lower rate of …

This paper investigates the relative labor productivity level for total manufacturing in Germany, Sweden and the US for … the period 1980-2001. The paper also presents estimates of labor productivity levels for 18 different manufacturing … industries for the period 1993-2000. The results show that the Swedish manufacturing productivity caught up with German and US …

We study how total factor productivity (TFP), energy prices, and the Great Moderation are linked. First we estimate a … negatively affected productivity. This spillover has since disappeared. Second, we show that within the framework of a dynamic … stochastic general equilibrium model, the disappearance of this energy-productivity spillover generates the significantly lower …

Knowledge is recognized as a crucial element of economic growth in addition to physical capital and labor. Knowledge …, identify, and exploit knowledge depends on the existing knowledge stock and the absorptive capacity of actors such as employees … at firms and researchers at universities and research institutions. The existing knowledge stock might not be …

history dependency is developed. Firms can accumulate knowledge by investing in R&D. As a benchmark without knowledge … experience by performing R&D the resulting effect of knowledge induces technological leaders to rest on their laurels which …

, and which satisfies strong properties of knowledge as well as all the desiderata on unawareness proposed this far in the … literature. In an example of speculative trade, we demonstrate how mutual unawareness of fundamentals allows for common knowledge … standard information structures with strong properties of knowledge. …

This paper discusses several features of knowledge that are often considered crucial for characterizing the economic … significance of knowledge: whether it is overtly accessible or tacit, whether it can be or is encoded or not, and whether it has … public or private good character. It is argued that all these features depend similarly on the state of the knowledge …