In this paper we add to the debate on the public capital - productivity link by exploiting very recent developments in … countries over the period 1975-2002. We find strong evidence of common factors that drive the cointegration relationship among … controlling for other productivity determinants like human capital, the stock of patents and R&D capital. …

on aggregate output and labor productivity for Mexico during the 1960-2001 period. The richer information set made … cointegrated production (labor productivity) function. The results suggest that, in the long run, changes in the stocks of public … output (and labor productivity) in all sectors. By contrast, changes in the stocks of foreign capital have a mixed effect …

productivity elasticity with respect to public infrastructure. Since earlier studies have merely examined the effect either on the … total factor productivity (TFP) growth of the manufacturing sector or on the national income of the country and widely … neglected direct effects on the labour productivity of the manufacturing sector, the present study attempts to fill this gap …

The empirical growth literature has focused on capital accumulation but largely ignored productivity growth. To address … this imbalance, we propose a methodology for analyzing productivity convergence based on frontier production functions. We …

A method for analyzing productivity convergence based on frontier production functions is proposed. It is examined …

incentive driven productivity following deregulations. Our model puts to test a panel of Nepalese commercial banks which went … through deep financial reforms in the recent past. We find that (i) bankers' efforts and productivity have notably improved in … Nepal, (ii) bankers' effort s significantly explain the banking sector's productivity, (iii) the proportion of non …