, productivity growth and capital accumulation. Moreover, there is evidence of a positive contribution to the process stemming from …

A method for analyzing productivity convergence based on frontier production functions is proposed. It is examined …

The paper surveys the literature on the effects of finance on productivity growth. In both the theoretical and … growth. Clearer positive effects emerge when considering growth channels related to productivity dynamics, with the estimated …

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 …