Productivity growth is the main driver of living standards. But productivity has slowed down over the past decade … firms. Finally, it explores policy reforms that can help revive the diffusion machine and strengthen productivity growth …

Global GDP growth has been propelled by two key factors over the past 50 years: growth of the size of the overall labor … force, which doubled in the G20 countries as a result of brisk population growth, and rising productivity. Over the next … future growth will be on productivity, whose growth in developed economies has been declining over the past decade. For the …

We explore the relation between a country's patents and its economic and productivity growth. Consistent with patents … (TFP) growth. Patent stock has a stronger impact on growth than other previously documented determinants, including human … capital and capital stock. The effect of private firms' patents on both GDP and TFP growth are double that of public firms …

We set up an endogenous growth model in which the efficiency of both capital and fossil energy can be improved, whereas … states: one stagnant where energy is fully derived from the alternative energy source, and one with balanced growth where …

main drivers of exponential growth in economic possibilities; second, a gradual general rebalancing of life choices away …

I build a quantitative model of economic growth that can be used to evaluate the impact of environmental policy … evidence on energy use, efficiency, and prices in the United States, as well as the standard balanced growth facts. I use the …