productivity in a sample of 93 countries (at its largest) observed between 1975 and 1999. I provide empirical evidence that … financial liberalization spurs productivity growth and marginally affects capital accumulation. Banking crises depress both … investments and TFP. Both levels and growth rates of productivity respond to financial liberalization and banking crises. The …

This paper examines labour productivity levels and growth rates in 10 EMU economies: Germany, France, Belgium … States in terms of productivity level. Available estimates indicate that in the tradables sector (mainly manufacturing … labour productivity tends to grow faster in the tradables sector. On the other hand, the well-established Balassa …

Using detailed micro data from the Indonesian manufacturing sector, we examine the effect on productivity growth of … sector increase productivity growth. Direct foreign investment benefits establishments in neighbouring industries within the …

reimbursement (internal markets). Differences in productivity growth are also found, although the differences are significant in one …

establishments with minority and majority ownership differ in terms of productivity levels? Secondly, does the degree of spillover … labor productivity and that domestic establishments benefit from spillovers. However, the degree of foreign ownership does … neither affect the level of labor productivity in foreign establishments, nor the degree of spillovers. …

This paper investigates the relative labor productivity level for total manufacturing in Germany, Sweden and the US for … the period 1980–2001. The paper also presents estimates of labor productivity levels for 18 different manufacturing … industries for the period 1993–2000. The results show that the Swedish manufacturing productivity caught up with German and US …

the productivity performance in the Indonesian automotive industries. More specifically, we try to answer two questions … methodology enables us to examine the dynamics of the different industries' productivity performance: which establishments account … for most of the productivity growth, and how important entry and exit of establishments are to the overall performance. …

The purpose of this paper is to include consumer satisfaction in the specification of productivity. We accomplish this … construct a Malmquist type of productivity index. As with the usual Malmquist productivity index, we can decompose productivity …

productivity catch-up is rejected. A number of potential "ultimate" causes behind the slowdown are explored. An increasingly …

local productivity and foreign presence. We find a positive and statistically significant spillover effect only in a sub …