The benefits from the New Economy should accrue as improvements in productivity and economic growth. But while the use … apparent ‘productivity paradox’. The most obvious one is the fact that not many countries, other than the US, have yet invested …

We use UK micro data to explore whether planning regulation reduced UK retailing productivity growth between 1997 and … which increased the costs of opening large stores. This might have caused a slowdown in productivity growth if firms (a … productivity works out at about £80,000 per small chain supermarket store. …

productivity not only increases the likelihood of exporting, but also the chances of firm survival and continued export market …

We study an OLG economy where productivity growth comes from two alternative sources: process innovation and learning …

The analysis in this paper shows that unpredictable variations in economic productivity may have a positive or negative …. Empirical studies concerning these two factors indicate that unpredictable variations in economic productivity have a negative …

This paper discusses the nature of macro productivity change from the perspective of a Schumpeterian micro-to-macro (M … productivity change at aggregate levels . This is especially so when relative prices are shifty as a consequence of the ongoing …

The growth rate of total factor productivity seems to have increased recently, at least in the United States. Higher US … productivity growth may justify higher stock market valuations than in the past and thus herald an emerging New Economy. However …, the size of the estimated growth rate of total factor productivity depends on an assumption about the factor …

This paper investigates labor productivity growth and the contribution to labor productivity growth in Swedish … productivity growth and the overall contribution to labor productivity growth was considerably higher in technology … adopters of electric motors and ICT, on average would have contributed more to productivity growth in Swedish manufacturing. …

economic activity. If firms are more similar with respect to their total factor productivity, each company faces a lower …