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 …

a strong positive casual relationship between manufacturing productivity growth and output growth, due to static and …This study first provides an outline of Kaldor's growth model and then tests its relevance to the economic experience … manufacturing is the engine of economic growth, whereas the second proposition, also known as Verdoorn's law, asserts that there is …

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 …

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 …

. 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 … productivity and variables from our model representing the technological substitution conditions. Our findings support this …

prices on growth. In the short run, growth is hampered by increasing energy prices. In the long run, however, capital … inputs where growth increases with rising energy prices. In the empirical part, estimations using different channels and …, they can even be positive for growth. …

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 …