This paper examines the development and drivers of total factor productivity (TFP) in the manufacturing sector for a … panel of 17 EU countries over the period of 1995-2007. Recent panel data estimation techniques are used in a twofold …

This paper examines the development and drivers of total factor productivity (TFP) in the manufacturing sector for a … panel of 17 EU countries over the period of 1995-2007. Recent panel data estimation techniques are used in a twofold …

The empirical growth literature has focused on capital accumulation but largely ignored productivity growth. To address … this imbalance, we propose a methodology for analyzing productivity convergence based on frontier production functions. We …

This paper examines the nonlinear propagation of sectoral productivity shocks in a general equilibrium framework with … in the aggregate propagation of sectoral productivity shocks with variable elasticities than with constant elasticities …. The results of sectoral productivity shocks on cross-country income convergence between 2005 and 2011 are robust across …

control for cyclical effects, we modify a standard technique in firmlevel production function estimation using a capacity … productivity ; capacity utilization ; aggregation ; panel data …

von diesem Methodenunterschied indessen nicht wesentlich beeinflusst. -- Kapitalstock ; Aggregation ; Produktionsfunktion …

growth accounting, different estimates of total factor productivity emerge. The methodological difference, however, does not …

productivity growth ; technology indicator ; technology shifter ; OECD countries …