This paper contributes to the productivity literature by using results from firm-level productivity studies to improve … forecasts of macro-level productivity growth. The paper employs current research methods on estimating firm-level productivity … to build times-series components that capture the joint dynamics of the firm-level productivity and size distributions …

This paper examines and applies the theoretical foundation of the decomposition of economic and productivity growth to … effect on growth. Technical progress is the main contributor to productivity growth and the scale effect has become important …

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 …

This paper empirically assesses the role of structural and institutional reforms in driving productivity growth across … reforms matter more for increasing productivity growth at the aggregate and sectoral levels for some emerging market and … payoffs, the paper also examines how productivity gains from various reforms evolve over the the short- and medium-term …

productivity in the rest of the economy. To separate exogenous gains in ICT from other technological progress, we use the relative …

We analyze the behavior of plant-level real wages and productivity in Turkish manufacturing after the transition to … democratic transition forced firms to increase productivity to stay competitive. The findings also help explain why countries … that undergo an orderly transition from autocracy to democracy may achieve rapid productivity gains. …

Slow productivity growth has plagued the euro area since the mid-1990s. That is particularly striking in view of the … large productivity gains in the United States during the same period. This paper shows that the deceleration in labor … productivity in the euro area was caused by structural changes in wage formation that have affected the relative price of labor …

A new method of identifying the sources of output growth and measuring total factor productivity (TFP) is proposed …

The aim of this report is to foster a better understanding of past trends in, and drivers of, productivity growth in … the countries of the European Union (EU) and of the interplay between productivity and monetary policy. To this end, a … productivity growth, including within the European System of Central Banks and in the context of the review of the ECB’s monetary …