of taxing consumption, on capital accumulation, productivity growth, and overall economic growth. While recent … accumulation positively, which feeds through to overall GDP growth, and (iii) productivity growth seems to be a less relevant …

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 …

This paper measures agricultural productivity growth by means of the sequential Malmquist Total Factor Productivity … productivity growth after the 1990s, absolute convergence cannot be accepted. Still, evidence for conditional convergence is found …

to differences in productivity. By some accounts, productivity contributes to more than 60 percent of countries’ growth … crossindustry differences in realized productivity. I argue that financial development induces technological innovations – a major … stimulus of productivity - through facilitating capital mobilization and risk sharing. In a panel of industries across thirty …