home country. This paper investigates the effects on productivity and trade from the perspective of transaction costs … suggests that the effect of offshoring manufacturing and services on total factor productivity (TFP) is positive and larger … than the effect of R&D on productivity. …

Ricardian-Heckscher-Ohlin model implemented on 75 countries. We simulate two alternative productivity growth scenarios: a … balanced one in which China's productivity grows at the same rate in each sector, and an unbalanced one in which China …'s comparative disadvantage sectors catch up disproportionately faster to the world productivity frontier. Contrary to a well …

potential candidate countries. The analysis reveals that total factor productivity growth has been the main driver of … negative link between the initial level of GDP and subsequent growth. Labour productivity has improved in most countries, while … are needed in terms of labour productivity and utilisation, as well as in terms of physical and human capital accumulation. …

We use plant output and input prices to decompose the profit margin into four parts: productivity, demand shocks, mark … the impact of productivity, and other market fundamentals, on plant exit. A dynamic simulation that compares the … distribution of productivity with and without the trade reform shows that improvements in market selection from trade reform help …

and regulation and productivity measurement of the German electricity industry in particular. The methodological approach … empirical productivity analyses based on a growth accounting fiamework. A major share of the data that are utilized for this … productivity analyses. …

-down approach of Diewert and Yu (2012). Inputs and outputs are measured and used to estimate the quarterly total factor productivity …

We study the role of productivity convergence and financial conditions in the recent growth experience of Hungary. We … build a stochastic, small-open economy growth model with productivity convergence, capital accumulation and external … borrowing. Using empirically identified processes for productivity and the external interest premium, we simulate the effects of …