This paper addresses the empirical relationship between the level of competition and the rate of productivity growth … level of competition for each sector that is defined by the mark-up that maximizes the growth rate of labor productivity …. The information technologies Sectors have the highest mark-ups for maximizing productivity growth. The persistence of …

The productivity generated by capital goods is not uniform along the time. When there exist conventional physical … capital goods the productivity obtained is minor that the one generated by quality capital goods. To obtain a correct measure … productivity of the investment goods constructing hedonic prices indices. This school is represented among others by Hulten (1992 …

technological change in terms of technological congruence and its effects on total factor productivity (TFP). Evolution of the match … elaborate its implications for the theory of induced technological change, and apply it to an empirical analysis of Italy …

We study the origins of labor productivity growth and its differences across sectors. In our model, sectors employ … a large and increasing contribution to aggregate labor productivity growth. Neither capital accumulation nor the …

This paper attempts to analyze the impact of knowledge and knowledge spillovers on regional total factor productivity …