' productivity. This effect is larger for those firms with access to bank credit and investment opportunities than for firms that …. The relevant parameters indicating a positive effect of bank credit to productivity are consistent between estimation …

We describe new experimental productivity statistics, Dispersion Statistics on Productivity (DiSP), jointly developed … and published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the Census Bureau. Official BLS productivity statistics provide … information on aggregate productivity growth. Yet, a large body of research shows that within-industry variation in productivity …

regional business cycles and manufacturing productivity in a developing country, namely Colombia. Design … motion of productivity (the Markov process), the authors obtain Total Factor Productivity (TFP) through the Wooldridge's two … results suggest a remarkable causality, both contemporary and non-contemporary, from productivity to GDP (but not vice versa …

This staff working paper (by Paula Barnes) examines multifactor productivity growth cycles at the industry level in … cycles chosen to examine industry MFP growth can have a considerable effect on the interpretation of industry productivity … performance over time. Growth in productivity is a key determinant of long-term economic growth and hence income growth. As …

This paper uses the data envelopment analysis (DEA) based Malmquist productivity index to estimate total factor … productivity growth (TFPG), technical change, and efficiency change for a panel of firms during the period 1991 to 2001 in 26 … Indian manufacturing industries. The paper then analyses the factors explaining productivity growth, technical change and …

in the effect and size of productivity shocks explain most of the gap in misallocation between manufacturing and services …, while the remainder is explained by differences in firm productivity and age distribution. We interpret these results as …

spillovers on firm-level productivity are extensively studied in applied work, but not in the context of resource misallocation …

This paper determines the relative importance of technical efficiency and reallocation for aggregate productivity … of productivity differences across firms. More precisely, we have information on human capital such as the level of … productivity growth by applying the decomposition introduced by Petrin and Levinsohn (2012). The outcome of this exercise will not …