Productivity in Finland has been increasing very rapidly since the 1980s. The increase from 1980 to 2001 was as much as … sector was 60 %, i.e., 2 times more than the industrial countries. average. Despite the rapid increase the productivity level … telecommunications and transportation, the productivity level is, however, very high by international standards. Productivity differences …

resuscitate HOV by introducing a simple Hicks-neutral (HN) factor-productivity adjustment, an approach that was heavily criticized …. In this paper, we re-examine the productivity question by estimating factor-specific productivities from the individual … technology data of multiple countries. Using a dataset of 29 countries, both developed and developing, we find evidence of factor …

values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility … where it does not properly measure technology) and makes it possible to calculate the contributions of disaggregated units …-level (EU-KLEMS) and firm-level (Amadeus) data. After adding further assumptions about technology and market structure (firms …

Estimating the response of hours worked to technology shocks is often considered as a crucial step for evaluating the … employment and productivity as a key tool for building an empirical evaluation of Real Business Cycle theories and New … estimated using a VAR, and retrieve alternative nonfundamental representations of the relation between technology shocks and …

the effects of an agreement where the more advanced firm shares its technology with the inferior one. We show that the …

Production capital and technology, fundamental to understanding output and productivity growth, are unobserved except … of capital and technology for the sample period. We apply the method to annual data from 1947-97 for U.S. total …

Rethinking the foundations of Heckscher-Ohlin theory when countries have different technologies, this paper shows how … to make the proper adjustments for international productivity differences. The central tool is a factor conversion matrix …