enabled Taiwan to exploit new technologies and products, resulting in rapid catch up in labour productivity relative to more … advanced economies. Using the industry-of-origin approach, this paper shows that in 1961, Taiwan's labour productivity in …

This paper discusses the comparative productivity performance of Eastern and Western Europe since 1950. Firstly, it … looks at the productivity estimates since the beginning of transition in 1989. Secondly an historical approach is adopted by … convergence and divergence trends in productivity since 1950. …

, scope, and productivity. In the model, firms are heterogeneous in how well they cope with expanding their product range. The …-discount puzzle" found in the data. Globalization induces a merger wave that leads to an improvement in average productivity. This … improvement is not due to selection effects but rather due to product-level productivity effects. The model predicts that …

productivity. …

We estimate the effect of international trade on average labour productivity across countries. Our empirical approach … empirical grounds. In contrast to the marginally significant and non-robust effects of trade on productivity found previously … productivity. Our finding is that trade works through labour efficiency, while institutional quality works through physical and …

We develop a simple estimator for production functions in the presence of endogenous productivity change that allows us … to retrieve productivity and its relationship with R\&D at the firm level. By endogenizing the productivity process we … as a generalization of the knowledge capital model (Griliches 1979) that has remained a cornerstone of the productivity …

’ hypothesis that foreign research labs located on US soil tap into US R&D spillovers and improve home country productivity. Using … firms’ Total Factor Productivity would have been at least 5% lower in 2000 (about $14bn) in the absence of the US R&D growth …