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 chapter covers the theory and methods for productivity measurement for nations. Labor, multifactor and total … factor productivity measures are defined and are related to each other and to gross domestic product (GDP) per capita. Their … factor productivity growth (TFPG) index. These are easiest to understand for the case in which the index number problem is …

Economic analysts have used trends in total factor productivity (TFP) to evaluate the effectiveness with which …

moral codes, this article explores a theory of ethics, known as the “Hunt-Vitell” theory of ethics, that illuminates the … concept of personal moral codes and uses the theory to discuss which types of personal moral codes foster trust and distrust … in society. This article then uses resource-advantage (R-A) theory, one of the most completely articulated dynamic …