introduce a new framework, which combines trade and growth theory into a tractable tool for quantitative research. Our …

Recent research has revealed enormous variation in performance and growth among firms, which both drives and is driven …

, and (iii) productivity and growth, relative to the contributions of the entrepreneurs’ counterparts, i.e., the ‘control … very important-but specific-function in the economy. They engender relatively much employment creation, productivity growth … studies show that entrepreneurial firms produce important spillovers that affect regional employment growth rates of all …

prospects as an engine of growth. Our analysis resoundingly confirms the conventional wisdom of an underperforming service …

The underdeveloped service sector in Asia has the potential to become a new engine of economic growth for developing … Asia, which has traditionally relied on export-oriented manufacturing to power its growth. The central objective of this … paper is to empirically analyze the prospects for the service sector as a future engine of growth. Our analysis of 12 Asian …

, or tweaking, seems to be behind the continual and gradual process of productivity growth. The findings suggest that …We document the evolution of productivity in a steel mini mill with fixed capital, producing an unchanged product with … productivity gains to investment and an incentive plan, we are left with a large unexplained component. Learning by experimentation …