productivity of the investment goods constructing hedonic prices indices. This school is represented among others by Hulten (1992 …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 …

made reluctance for companies. I found out empirical relations between IT investment and corporate productivity. Analyses … being produced by IT investment. Based on these results, I showed how productivity improvement supported by IT investment …Japanese IT investment has stagnated. Though some Japanese companies are investing in IT, this does not represent …

consists of three blocks: the TFP, the SCGE and the MACRO blocks. The model is built for impact analysis of policies targeting …

spatial dependence, we assess the concurrent effect of the human capital indicators on total factor productivity for 257 … an innovative, open, inclusive and culturally diverse environment is becoming more and more crucial for productivity …

The paper analyses the causal effect of capital subsidies on firms' efficiency and productivity by exploiting the … decomposition of TFP can be applied to a large sample of subsidized firms for a relevant period of time, allowing to evaluate either … evolves over time, enabling to decompose productivity changes into the change in technical efficiency (i.e., measuring the …

traditional macro approach to estimating the determinants of total factor productivity (TFP) does not handle them well. To counter … these problems, this paper proposes applying an augmented macro-theoretical model to estimate the determinants of TFP by … jointly considering the effects of R&D and the impact of non-R&D innovation activities on the productivity levels of ?firms …

This paper proposes a fixed-effect panel methodology that enables us to simultaneously take into account both TFP … 2006 and find the absence of an overall process of TFP convergence as we observe that TFP dispersion is virtually constant … across two different subperiods. However, the absence of a strong process of TFP convergence hides interesting and complex …