consistent with, the forces of international financial integration. Stepping up productivity is the key to sustaining growth …

emphasized the need to implement policies that increase productivity, create an efficient business environment and a flexible …

been trapped in productivity stagnation for twenty years? …

total factor productivity. By contrast, Jorgenson and Vu’s (2007) decompositions of Korea’s GDP growth find that total … factor productivity decreased over this period. This paper compares the two decompositions; evaluates Hahn and Shin …

determinants of firm-level persistence in time of high total factor productivity (TFP) growth rates relative to the corresponding …This paper investigates the dynamics of productivity in a large sample of Italian manufacturing firms, focusing on the … in TFP growth rates. Such persistence turns out to be path-dependent since it is shaped by a number of complementary and …

associated with lower productivity growth and, hence, lower economic growth in the coming years. This paper studies the issue …, focusing on the dynamics of entrepreneurship and productivity around the time of the Great Recession. The author looks first at … the recent evolution of alternative measures of entrepreneurship and of productivity, and then analyzes the relationship …

a firm located in a region with a higher median total factor productivity (TFP) gains higher productivity from other … examine how physical proximity influences a firm's future productivity and its survival possibility. Our results indicate that … knowledge and to produce more new ideas. Our results also indicate these productivity-enhancing characteristics do not seem to …

Productivity (TFP) at the firm level on a panel of Spanish firms (1991-2002). We use two alternative approaches. In the first, we … estimate TFP and apply a diff-in-diff estimator with a control group constructed by propensity-score matching. In the second …, direct method, we estimate TFP with imported inputs as a state variable in one stage. Both approaches show that the effect of …

Productivity (TFP) at the firm level on a panel of Spanish firms covering the period between 1991 and 2002. We use two alternative … approaches. In the first, we estimate TFP using the Olley-Pakes semi-parametric method and apply a diff-indiff estimator with a … control group constructed by propensity-score matching. In the second, direct method, we estimate TFP with imported inputs as …

human capital and total factor productivity (TFP) is assessed. The study shows that much higher investments in physical and … targets of the Plan. Particularly in the industry sector negative TFP growth hampers growth of output and productivity in the …This study investigates the performances of growth and productivity in Syria for the period 1985-2008 by means of …