The empirical growth literature has focused on capital accumulation but largely ignored productivity growth. To address … this imbalance, we propose a methodology for analyzing productivity convergence based on frontier production functions. We … importance of efficiency changes for economic growth. Using a sample of 26 OECD countries from 1965-90, we find convergence and …

This paper addresses the controversial issue of the direct and indirect effects of public R&D on growth. We look at six … variables of R&D-driven growth jointly for 14 OECD countries using methods of dynamic systems for panel data analysis: GDP …&D has positive long-run regression coefficients for direct effects on productivity and indirect ones via private R&D. Here …

Measurement of productivity in the service sector has always represented a challenge for economists. "Productivity in … the U.S. Services Sector: New Sources of Economic Growth", by Jack Triplett and Barry Bosworth from the Brookings …

In this work the author updates the reviews on endogenous growth theories in order to explore whether recent empirical … studies have become more supportive of their main predictions. Among the core topics studied in the growth econometric … framework, namely convergence, identification of growth determinants and factors responsible for growth differences in the data …

economy at risk. -- Sectoral Change ; Energy ; Technical Change ; Productivity Growth ; Baumol's disease …". Following Baumol's cost disease hypothesis, (unexplained) productivity differentials between the industrial and service sectors … are often utilized to explain the recent dominance of the service sector. We hypothesize that the productivity …

Technology is a key element for long-term growth and economic development. Given the stark concentration of innovation … growth as suggested by the technology club hypothesis in a threshold regression framework using human capital as the … threshold variable. Using this approach, which is related to Benhabib-Spiegel type growth regressions, we are able to identify …

In this work the author updates the reviews on endogenous growth theories in order to explore whether recent empirical … studies have become more supportive of their main predictions. Among the core topics studied in the growth econometric … framework, namely convergence, identification of growth determinants and factors responsible for growth differences in the data …

In this work we update the reviews on endogenous growth theories, after two decades of theoretical and empirical … core topics studied in the growth econometric framework, namely, convergence, identification of growth determinants and … factors responsible for growth differences in the data, the primary focus of this paper is on the last two. We will review …