To what extent are the productivity spillovers of information technology related to R&D activity? Do these factors …-run productivity growth. We control for either the domestic specialization in digital productions or import penetration of high …-tech goods. In any case, the national endowment of IT assets emerges as a robust source of spillovers. It is also shown that the …

productivity. This task was carried out by Cambridge Econometrics, a co-operation partner, with a disaggregated database according … productivity and growth. …

total factor productivity in Chile. Using the integration and cointegration techniques of Kapetanios (2005), Pesaran, Shin …, our estimation results provide evidence for the existence of productivity-enhancing effects of capital goods imports and … manufactured exports and of productivity-limiting effects of primary exports. …

This paper examines the impact of education, governance and North-South trade- and distance-related technology … preceding the Great Recession (1976-2007) in a new model that integrates models of trade-related and distance …-related international technology diffusion. Our model’s explanatory power is 38% (62%) greater than that of the main trade-related (distance …

We demonstrate that common modeling assumptions underlying micro-unit productivity indices induce biases in the … evolution and decomposition of standard aggregate productivity measures. After controlling for such biases, we decompose … aggregate productivity based on groups of economically significant firm types. We show that large incumbent firms that both …

total factor productivity in Chile. Using the integration and cointegration techniques of Kapetanios (2005), Pesaran, Shin …, our estimation results provide evidence for the existence of productivity-enhancing effects of capital goods imports and … manufactured exports and of productivity-limiting effects of primary exports. …

Recent trade theory suggests that the relationship between trade and productivity is fundamentally ambiguous. This … study investigates the cointegration and causal relationship between productivity growth and export growth for a number of … productivity and exports are causally related in the long run for each economy. The results suggest that export growth contributes …

countries. He finds that Ireland has experienced a long-term productivity boom over the last 25 years and that the recent … acceleration in per capita GDP reflects an acceleration in employment rate growth, not in productivity growth. The main policy … lessons that Fortin draws from the Irish economic miracle are: support free trade and investment; develop business …

.S. productivity levels during the postwar period and finds strong evidence for this phenomenon up to 1990, with rapid growth in … the narrowing of the productivity gap with the United States, and perhaps most important, the acceleration of productivity …