-specific distortions. The actual policy worsens allocative efficiency, decreasing aggregate total factor productivity (TFP) by 0.15%, but …

Productivity growth has flat-lined in most economies despite rapid advances in technology. Economists suggest competing … and increased productivity means a productivity surge is just around the corner. The paper explores the implications of … alternative productivity growth scenarios for the global economy, particularly for growth, labor markets and the flows of trade …

This paper explore the role of institutions to enhance the productivity growth across countries using a two stage … Double Bootstrap Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The productivity growth is calculated on the basis of Malmquist … productivity index. It also explores the sources of productivity growth and the influence of different types of institutions …

The method that Canada and other developed countries use to measure productivity growth generally ignores the … of production processes, are excluded from the productivity accounting framework. This study proposes an extended … productivity measure that takes pollutants into account. It illustrates how it can be applied using carbon dioxide emissions. The …

variables are included as explanatory variables. Estimates found using quantitative theory depend in critical ways on values of …