Over recent years `opportunity cost' (OC) models of growth have been constructed which suggest that firms take … advantage of the possibility of intertemporal subsitution in order to engage in productivity-improving activities during … productivity, both in the short and long run, and the short-run impact is stronger in those countries where fluctuations are more …

highly persistent. Moreover benefits (in terms of productivity) resulting from innovation are differentiated according to the … initial technological level of firms. Lastly, innovating firms seem to contribute significantly to the economic growth over …

. It also looks at the key drivers of productivity in the sector, investigating potential barriers to productivity growth … several forest product markets, maintaining robust productivity growth is an imperative for the Canadian forest products … environment the sector experienced an above-average productivity performance, driven in particular by the wood product …

potential barriers to productivity growth and discussing policies that could enable faster growth. Given the increasing role of … countries with low-labour costs in several forest product markets, maintaining robust productivity growth is an imperative for …The Canadian forest products sector has had an above-average productivity performance in the 2000-2012 period, driven …

The slower productivity growth in Canada relative to that experienced in the United States in the second half of the … development. A key issue is whether this slower productivity growth is broadly-based, which would imply a societal … productivity growth in Canada and the United States in the 1990s. They find that the productivity growth gap in the 1990s at both …

policies fostering technology transfer provide countries with the ability to converge to the productivity growth rate of the … important drivers of productivity growth; and that competition policy can actually spur innovation and hence growth through a …In recent years, our understanding of the sources of growth has been strongly influenced by endogenous growth theory …

the macroeconomic perspective in the analysis of productivity growth. He believes that the golden age of productivity …This article, by Ian A. Stewart, is a review of the recently released Industry Canada research volume Productivity … the volume represents an important contribution to the productivity literature in Canada. He points out that data and …