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 …

firms always have a higher market share, there is no monotonic relationship between firms' productivity level and their … effect. Therefore, the incentive to add more products weakens as productivity rises. This leads to Lemma 3 in Feenstra and Ma …

is increasing in its productivity, with the most productive multinationals choosing not to rely on a foreign partner at …

examine how trade liberalization affects firm and industry productivity, as well as social welfare. We identify four effects … of trade liberalization on productivity: (i) a direct effect through changes in R&D investment; (ii) a scale effect due …

In order to assess the productivity effects of information and communication technologies (ICT), regressions based on …?GMM estimator yields evidence for significant productivity effects of ICT which are substantially smaller though than those …

of an ageing workforce, this paper measures the impact of changes in the age structure of establishments on productivity … methods. We find that establishment productivity increases with the share of employees until the age of 50-55 and only … account endogeneity, time dependencies, or crucial information correlated with age shares and productivity. Large standard …

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 …, increasing productivity - via knowledge and network externalities - output and employment). As a result, we first point out the …

This paper examines the relationship between firms' productivity improvement and the volume of exports, and shows that …) and multimarket linkages (i.e., horizontally). We find that an improvement of the manufacturing productivity affects the … look surprising. This result can explain for the empirical productivity puzzle found in Ghemawat et al. (2010). Related to …

productivity, by altering the makeup of plants that populate the market. An appreciation of the local currency increases the level … structural model that captures the effect of plantlevel productivity and real exchange rate fluctuations on plant entry and exit … decisions in the Canadian agricultural implements industry, and how this, in turn, affects aggregate productivity. The model …