between the United States and the rest of the world, this paper asks to what extent an asymmetric productivity shock in the … second half of the 1990s. The paper concludes that the Balassa-Samuelson effect of such a productivity shock is only part of …

pattern of international trade and production on the overall productivity growth of a developing country. A key result is that … productivity growth. The authors also find that a production-share weighted average of (technological leaders’) sectoral … productivity growth rates has a significant effect on the rate of aggregate productivity growth …

collapsing investment and shrinking employment. Sharp declines in productivity, reflecting in part transition-related factors …

This paper examines the impact of productivity shocks on real exchange rate fluctuations in a dynamic international … statistically significant relationship exists between bilateral real exchange rates and international productivity differentials in …

Total factor productivity (TFP) of 14 manufacturing sectors in France has kept up with that of the United States during … indicate that sectors further behind the technological frontier experience faster productivity growth and that spending on …

This paper investigates the impact of structural reforms on productivity growth. A panel analysis of 20 OECD countries … finds that the impact of structural reforms on productivity growth may be weak or negative in the short run, possibly due to … run, however, structural reforms are found to have significantly positive effects on productivity growth …

in Asia during the 1990s is found to be mainly from capital deepening. Total factor productivity (TFP) is also decomposed …

different from the income shares of these factors, and that the growth of total factor productivity over the period 1960-95 has …

conclusion is that the estimated total factor productivity (TFP) growth for the former Soviet Union republics were significantly …