This paper examines the role of total factor productivity (TFP) in China’s miraculous growth during 1997-2012 and …

the technological frontier of computing had on the productivity of firms?This paper focuses on the surprise change in chip ….5-0.7pp in yearly total factor productivity growth. These losses are permanent, and without adaptation would reflect a lower … long-term growth rate for these firms. These findings may help explain larger observed declines in the productivity growth …

, which in turn feeds back to slower productivity growth. During the decade ending in 2014:Q4, U.S. real GDP grew at only 1 … productivity growth combine diminishing returns that have set in following the ICT revolution of the 1996-2004 "dot.com" era with a … activity among youth. While future productivity growth will be slower than before 2004, it will still continue as in the past …

performance of entire economies: 1) a productivity effect through the ICT-producing sector, 2) an investment effect from ICT …-using industries through capital deepening, and 3) a productivity effect from an efficiency rise through the use of ICT which goes … beyond the direct capital deepening effect. The study finds that the slowing of the total factor productivity growth rate in …

This chapter examines the historical record of manufacturing productivity growth in the United States in the nineteenth … and twentieth century in the context of broader trends in private non-farm economy productivity. TFP growth in … highest in 1919-29 and 1973-95. The sector's labor productivity growth was also highest in the interwar period and between …

We study the impact of bank credit supply on firm output and productivity. By exploiting a matched firm-bank database … revenues) for a given level of inputs. Our estimates imply that a credit crunch will be followed by a productivity slowdown, as … account for about a quarter of the observed decline in Italy's total factor productivity growth. The results are robust to an …

This paper aims to investigate the determinants of productivity growth in the Tunisian economy context over the period …. Empirical results identify that the impact of domestic R&D intensity on the productivity growth is negative but not significant …

Productivity growth has flat-lined in most economies despite rapid advances in technology. Economists suggest competing … and increased productivity means a productivity surge is just around the corner. The paper explores the implications of … alternative productivity growth scenarios for the global economy, particularly for growth, labor markets and the flows of trade …