This paper empirically investigates and identifies the main contributing factors to output and productivity growth in … capital and ICT are important drivers of output growth in Australia, so their omission from standard productivity measures …

Knowledge accumulation in the richer countries provides them with comparative advantages in higher productivity … products. The countries that import the higher productivity intermediate products and capital equipments produced in the richer … productivity level associated with a country’s imports. Using instrumental variable method (to address the endogeneity problems …

positively correlated with productivity improvements and growth in real output. Furthermore, while governance affects efficiency …

positively correlated with productivity improvements and growth in real output. Furthermore, while governance affects efficiency …

The paper explains the large differences in cross-country productivity performance by modeling and testing the effects … of social barriers to communication on productivity and capital accumulation. In an optimal growth model, social barriers …-state levels of total factor productivity (TFP), per capita consumption, and reproducible capital. A ‘bridging’ parameter in the …

Wirtschaftswachstum, Arbeitsplätzen und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit auf den Weltmärkten. Ziel der Lissabon-Strategie, eines wichtigen …

examine monopoly (South Africa) and duopoly (South Africa, Australia) with a competitive fringe (US, Canada, Poland, China and …

compatible. In Canada, aFTA with its second largest trading partner offers a viable alternative to its currentoverdependence on …-examines the long run trade led gains from a Canada-EU27 FTA.Unlike previous studies, our assessment also accounts for the HS6 …

corporations collected by Statistics Canada.Findings – Aggregate diversification declined slightly over the period in terms of the …