We analyze the effect of ICT and R&D on total factor productivity (TFP) growth across different industries in Sweden. R …, spillovers from R&D affect TFP much faster than spillovers from ICT-investments. We also divide ICT capital into hardware and …

any total factor productivity measures computed. Our empirical findings imply that sectoral structure is of crucial …

-sectional distributions of technological productivity are well-approximated either by the lognormal, Weibull, or a novel “CES … convergence of the true technological productivity distribution to the theoretical limit with n …

In a recent paper, Bloom et al. (2020) find evidence for a substantial decline in research productivity in the U …

While the economic theory predicts that developing countries will gain the most from technology spillovers, there have … to disentangle the effects of international spillovers via trade and FDI. My findings show that imports remain the main … on domestic productivity. The domestic R&D capital stock plays an active role in Western Europe while in the Eastern part …

This paper addresses the empirical relationship between the level of competition and the rate of productivity growth … level of competition for each sector that is defined by the mark-up that maximizes the growth rate of labor productivity … productivity growth during the period (1.86%). Hence, long-term productivity growth could have reached 2.25% if mark-ups had been …

and their productivity. Recent work suggests that these calculations should treat workers of different skill levels as … imperfect substitutes. However, under this approach, it has been challenging to compute skill-specific productivity levels for a … data set on labor force composition to construct measures of productivity for workers in three distinct skill categories …