industry, we revisit the construction produc-tivity puzzle by analyzing the construction value chains of 12 European countries … productivity con-tributions to the construction industry and the rest of the value chain, and show that the traditional focus on … other industries, and the productivi-ty growth in the construction value chains has, for the most part, been seen in them …

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

how firm-specific characteristics affect each decision. We find that total factor productivity is a significant …

We use Japanese firm-level data to examine how a firm?s productivity affects its choice of foreign-market entry …

across regions in Japan, the stock amount of public capital could be endogenous because it could be allocated to either … public capital investment across regions in order to estimate the causal effect of public capital on production. Japan … regions as well. The productivity of public capital based on this natural experimental identification strategy indicates …

variance of its components, which is then applied to measure the relative contributions of productivity, hours per worker, and … employment to cyclical output growth across a panel of countries. Measured productivity contributes more to the cycle in Europe … and Japan than in the United States. Employment contributes the largest proportion of the cycle in Europe and the United …

First moves towards a real understanding of offshoring date back to very recent times. In particular for Japan, the … studies conducted so far focus alone on the productivity effects of offshoring at the firm level. Here I carry out the … analysis of both the employment and productivity effects at the aggregate level of the industry, covering the years 1980 …

, engineering, disaster sociology, and forest policy in China and Japan. The papers cover a range of topics, including forest owners …

This paper analyzes endogenous fluctuations in total factor productivity (TFP) in a dynamic general equilibrium model … firms, and fluctuations in TFP in response to firm-level productivity and aggregate credit-market shocks. I also analyze the …. Implications of the model are consistent with the features of the stagnation in Japan in the 1990s. …