The economic effects of environmental policies are of central interest to policymakers. The traditional approach sees environmental policies as a burden on economic activity, at least in the short to medium term, as they raise costs without increasing output and restrict the set of production...

Compte rendu d’une conférence internationale, organisée en avril 2006 par la Banque de France et la Banque du Canada, visant à comparer les quantifications et diagnostics concernant les écarts de croissance de la productivité et du PIB potentiel des pays industrialisés.

La croissance de la productivité dans la zone euro et aux États-Unis a connu sur la période récente des inflexions significatives, respectivement à la hausse et à la baisse, qui sembleraient relever en partie d’évolutions structurelles.

ResumenEl concepto de las cadenas productivas ha tomado en los últimos años un peso importante para el desarrollo de las empresas, tanto en los países desarrollados como en desarrollo. Sin embargo, en los países en desarrollo, los principales agentes económicos que son las empresas no han...

This paper measures factor productivities (and hence total factor productivity growth) directly on the basis of the fundamentals of the economy (endowments, preferences and technology), without recourse to market prices. The factor productivities are the Lagrange multipliers of a linear program...

The standard measure of productivity growth is the Solow residual. Its evaluation requires data on factor input shares or prices. Since these prices are presumed to match factor productivities, the standard procedure amounts to accepting at face value what is supposed to be measured. In this...

This paper surveys recent empirical studies exploring aggregate productivity growth based on firm dynamics, focusing on micro-data from OECD countries. Aggregate productivity growth can be analysed as a sum of two separate processes. <I>i</I>) Changes in productivity in individual firms at a given size...</i>