Ricardian-Heckscher-Ohlin model implemented on 75 countries. We simulate two alternative productivity growth scenarios: a … magnitude larger welfare gains when China's productivity growth is biased towards its comparative disadvantage sectors. We … "balanced" one in which China's productivity grows at the same rate in each sector, and an "unbalanced" one in which China …

This paper shows that because growth models in the tradition of Solow's and Romer's are framed in terms of production … literature: (i) finding the Holy Grail: total factor productivity is, by construction, a weighted average of dollars per worker … well-known growth accounting exercises and models directly derived from production functions. They are merely tautologies …

This paper studies the productivity impact of heterogeneous capital inputs of selected EU-15 member countries and of … 1980 to 2004, calculated and published by the Groningen Growth and Development Centre, are used in the empirical analysis …

terms of potential output, of further structural reform. Looking forward, the study finds that durable growth in Ukraine …

For the mid to late 1990s and early 2000s, the basic neoclassical growth theory predicts a steady Japanese economy …-­neutral technology proposed by McGrattan & Prescott (2010) to the Japanese economy, and finds that the predictions derived from the new …

I estimate establishment level total factor productivity (TFP) convergence using panel data from India's manufacturing … sector from 2001-2015. I examine the presence of foreign owned establishments within each industry's productivity frontier …, and allow for the speed of productivity convergence to differ based on the ownership composition of the frontier. While I …

effect of R&D offshoring on industrial productivity in the home country using industry-level data for 18 OECD countries over … a 26-year period. Simultaneity between productivity and R&D offshoring is addressed by using foreign tax policy as an … instrument for offshored R&D. We show that R&D offshoring contributes positively to productivity in the home country …

We explore the relation between a country's patents and its economic and productivity growth. Consistent with patents … (TFP) growth. Patent stock has a stronger impact on growth than other previously documented determinants, including human … capital and capital stock. The effect of private firms' patents on both GDP and TFP growth are double that of public firms …

Productivity across European regions is related to three types of networks that mediate R&D-related knowledge … co-patenting relations appear to affect local productivity directly, regions that link up to innovative leader regions … via imports gain in productivity only when they have relatively high levels of human capital and absorptive capacity. From …

capital measures, where the latter is not statistically significant in growth regressions. This evidence confirms one of the …