Understanding the causes of the slowdown in aggregate productivity growth is key to maintaining the competitiveness of … Knowledge-Based Capital (KBC), despite having a positive effect on productivity at the micro level, is a driver of the weak … productivity performance at the aggregate level, by accentuating divergence between a group of "frontier" firms and the rest of the …

The authors provide an extensive review of the rapidly expanding research on productivity, both at the macro and micro …, especially the United States, where such work sheds important light on particular aspects of productivity growth. The authors …

The authors provide an extensive review of the rapidly expanding research on productivity, both at the macro and micro …, especially the United States, where such work sheds important light on particular aspects of productivity growth. The authors … identify areas for further research. -- Productivity …

We study the impact of regional and sectoral productivity changes on the U.S. economy. To that end, we consider an … environment that captures the effects of interregional and intersectoral trade in propagating disaggregated productivity changes … sectoral productivity changes. We find that such elasticities can vary significantly depending on the sectors and regions …

. 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 …

, the growing use of intermediates imported from China has contributed to the productivity growth within the manufacturing … production processes of 22 high-income countries. Using China’s productivity as the exogenous variation, the main result – based … average, lead to an increase in productivity by 0.65 per cent among high-income countries, and by 0.40 per cent in the US …

productivity growth has been disappointing since the 1970s. We propose and empirically explore the hypothesis that slow growth …'s success in innovation depends on complementary innovations among its input suppliers, rapid productivity growth that is … productivity gains. Using data on input-output linkages, citation linkages, industry productivity growth and patenting, we find …

and productivity …