National framework conditions mediate the effect of technological capabilities of firms on their productivity. Although … institutional conditions influence total factor productivity of firms. Furthermore, we find that the effects of the national …, formal training of workers and access to technology through foreign ownership make more difference for productivity of firms …

The Productivity Commission released a Staff Working Paper ‘Can Australia Match US Productivity Performance?’ (by Ben … level of productivity. While other countries have caught up with — and even surpassed — US productivity, Australia’s catch …-up has been comparatively modest and patchy. International comparisons of productivity are useful, but also have hazards …

slacks-based efficiency measures of Tone (2001, 2002) to analyse productivity changes for Indonesian banks over the period … impact on productivity growth. The first part of the Malmquist analysis showed that average productivity changes for the …, state-owned and foreign banks, as well as Islamic banks, exhibited volatile productivity movements, mainly caused by shifts …

international R&D spillovers on productivity. The study is based on the industry-level data set that covers eight OECD countries …

Baltic countries, which opted for a fast and profound transformation of their institutions, rapidly narrowed the productivity … reforms later and contented with less depth, the productivity gap remains substantial. While the literature has focused mainly …

investigate the influence of trade openness on agricultural technological change. The estimated productivity effects induced from … when the productivity effects are included. …

values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility …