In this paper we investigate the impact of environmental regulation on productivity using a Cobb-Douglas production … function framework. Estimating the effects of regulation on productivity can be done with a top-down approach using data for … increase in pollution abatement costs leads to an estimated productivity decline of $3.11, $1.80, and $5.98 in the paper, oil …

Information technology has altered the way companies manage their supply chains, and has resulted in a variety of new …

This study analyses the production efficiency gains in terms of technology transfer and labour productivity changes …

values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility … where it does not properly measure technology) and makes it possible to calculate the contributions of disaggregated units …-level (EU-KLEMS) and firm-level (Amadeus) data. After adding further assumptions about technology and market structure (firms …

monopoly power. In this economy, measures of total factor productivity (TFP) growth in terms of quantities (the primal) and … real factor prices (the dual) can diverge from each other as well as from true technology growth. These distortions … potentially give rise to dynamic reallocation effects that imply that change in technology needs to be measured from the bottom up …

productivity. Large differences in wages across countries could arise from several sources. These include barriers to trade in … outputs, differences in technology, differences in workers, or differences in the other factors of production accessible in …, international barriers to trade in outputs, barriers to technology transfer, and all observable or unobservable differences between …

significant and persistent gap between the aggregate productivity and technology levels for the US private business sector. We we …