In order to maximize their productivity, inter-disciplinary multi-occupation teams of professionals need to maximize …

This Economic Letter summarizes several papers presented at the symposium "The Outlook for Future Productivity Growth …" hosted November 14, 2008, by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco's Center for the Study of Innovation and Productivity …

The total factor productivity index for u.s. wheat was 1.5% per year between 1974 and 1983. The conservation tillage … productivity index for u.s. wheat was about 1.1% per year during this time period, or about 75% of the T.F.P. North Dakota and …

direct investment from the U.S. and Japan plays in affecting developing countries¡¯ productivity, and export. Trade and … spillover effects on labor productivity and export. The results of the study show that positive productivity effects from U … countries to the rest of the world. On the other hand, productivity is enhanced by foreign portfolio investment, availability of …

-level agricultural productivity of the USA. This is pursued using Total Factor Productivity (TFP) data from 48 contiguous states over the … the respective productivity levels. According to the results, there are multiple equilibria each of them attracting a …

. Even the currencies of poor nations are galloping upward in $ parity, because they are linked to Euro. This is due to USA …'s approach to control other nations in the world,through unilateral Army power,tie up of domestic markets towards USA, and … Pumping wealth from developed nations. A Notional Balance sheet of USA, balances only with a Loss to the Assets(Debit). This …

Using US input-output data for the period 1958-87, I find strong evidence that industry total factor productivity (TFP … return to embodied R&D is estimated at 43%. Direct productivity spillovers, from the technological progress made by supplying … explaining changes in manufacturing TFP growth over time. Changes in the contribution made by direct productivity spillovers to …