The productivity performance of the UK economy in the period 1990-2007 was excellent. Based entirely on pre-crisis data … discuss a wide range of hypotheses which seek to explain the productivity collapse, including the impact of austerity. Most of … financial crises, particularly banking crises, on productivity, capital, TFP and employment. Based on a cross-country panel …

productivity in the UK while leaving the long run growth rate unaffected. Based entirely on pre-crisis data, and using a two …

novel firm-level data set from a variety of industries in Pakistan, this paper revisits productivity-liberalization link …, and investigates the effect of trade liberalization on competition and firm productivity. We find that productivity gains … from reducing overall tariff rates are not obvious from a simple regression of total factor productivity on tariff rates …

productivity of the factory-operated plantation with the outgrower-operated plots based on a new cross-sectional plot-level data … between the explanatory variables. In order to obtain meaningful productivity measures, we impose monotonicity in input …−ceteris paribus−a statistically and economically significantly higher productivity than factory-operated plots, which can be explained …

model, we use novel and detailed productivity and survey data from nine large firms in three industries: call … profits per worker and the difference is driven by referrals from high productivity workers. …

growth in pre-crisis years. While this led to productivity-enhancing structural change in Greece and Portugal, overcapacities …

, imports of high-technology goods, requiring a high level of knowledge, contribute to increased productivity levels. The … productivity increases to the same degree as imports of high-technology goods. Therefore, the removal of barriers to trade and to …