In recent times the employment effects of technical progress raised much intention. Will recent productivity gains lead …

This paper investigates the positive international spillover effects of non-discriminatory product regulations, such as … quality standards. We incorporate regulations into a multi-country general equilibrium framework with firm heterogeneity and … variable markups. We model regulations as a fixed cost that any firm selling to an economy must pay, consistent with stylized …

financial variables of Lithuanian firms. We focus in particular on the issues related to productivity, firm birth and death and … literature: trade participation and firm productivity are strongly positively linked, the 2008 recession has had a cleansing …

stemming from reallocation induced by structural change. At the same time, productivity growth within the input-output network …

, both factors flow out of the rural sector. Under a common property regime, the agricultural productivity gaps for labor and …

Structural change is an important driver of productivity growth at the aggregate level. While previous productivity … to another. We develop an improved productivity decomposition that accounts for both intra-industry and inter … productivity to the industry level. The proposed decomposition is applied to Finland's information and communication technology …