their ability to reduce costs, enabling research and development, increased productivity among other advantages. This paper …

This paper introduces new estimates of recent productivity developments in the United States, using an appropriate … continued strong performance of U.S. productivity since 2000. We find that the major sectoral players in the late 1990s pickup … were not contributors to the more recent surge in productivity. Rather, striking gains in MFP in the finance and business …

lead to costs in terms of lower output and aggregate total factor productivity (TFP). We use a theoretical framework …

This paper employs a nonparametric approach to investigate the sources of growth in labor productivity for 77 countries … and to decompose it in the following three components: (1) total factor productivity; (2) capital deepening; and (3 …

This paper investigates the impact of structural reforms on productivity growth. A panel analysis of 20 OECD countries … finds that the impact of structural reforms on productivity growth may be weak or negative in the short run, possibly due to … run, however, structural reforms are found to have significantly positive effects on productivity growth …

We propose a new decomposition method for analysing aggregate productivity changes. The main improvement in our … proposed method is that we are clearly able to separate out pure productivity changes of a hypothetical average firm from … up firm-level contributions to aggregate productivity growth. It also allows for straightforward interpretation of the …

several methods to decompose total factor productivity growth into secular and unexpected components. All our empirical …