The US economy has experienced a rapid expansion in industries with low productivity growth. In this paper, we … investigate the effect of financial development on productivity growth in these so-called stagnant industries. We show that while … banking reforms have an insignificant effect on aggregate productivity growth, as documented in prior study, stagnant …

exploring trends in energy- and labour productivity across 10 manufacturing sectors and 14 OECD countries for the period 1970 … considerably to aggregate manufacturing energy-productivity growth and, hence, to decoupling, while in other countries they partly … manufacturing labour-productivity developments. Furthermore, we find labour-productivity growth to be higher on average than energy-productivity …

and the Generalized Method of Moments estimators to test, respectively, for Total Factor Productivity determinants and … labor productivity convergence driving forces (i.e.capital accumulation and technological catch-up) in different … cross-country heterogeneity of labor productivity convergence tendencies. My results show that technology growth rate is …

for each 4-digit SIC code. Our framework uses the Petrin and Levinsohn (2008) definition of aggregate productivity growth …

Studies on Indian manufacturing have been unable to provide consistent estimates of productivity and its growth rates …, TFP growth increases substantially in the public corporations. Productivity transition seems to be random across different … (3-digit NIC code) industries. Industries with focus towards services experienced higher productivity growth than others …