The paper focuses on the influence of upstream competition for productivity outcomes in downstream sectors. This …. Thus, lack of competition in upstream markets curbs incentives to improve productivity downstream, negatively affecting … effects. We find clear evidence that anticompetitive regulations in upstream sectors have curbed MFP growth downstream over …

through which upstream sector anticompetitive regulations may impact productivity growth: business investments in R&D and in …, management and organization. For this, we specify an extended production function relating productivity explicitly to R&D and ICT … capital as well as to upstream regulations, and two factor demand functions relating R&D and ICT capital to upstream …

improve productivity downstream. We confirm such prediction by estimating a model of multifactor productivity growth in which … anticompetitive upstream regulations have curbed MFP growth over the past 15 years, more strongly so for observations that are close …Based on an endogenous growth model, we show that intermediate goods markets imperfections can curb incentives to …

improve productivity downstream. We confirm such prediction by estimating a model of multifactor productivity growth in which … anticompetitive upstream regulations have curbed MFP growth over the past 15 years, more strongly so for observations that are close …Based on an endogenous growth model, we show that intermediate goods markets imperfections can curb incentives to …

This paper assesses the possible dynamic effects of occupational entry regulations (OER) on productivity. It combines … contribution of personal and professional services to aggregate productivity growth via two channels: the acceleration of their … points of productivity on average; and a higher contribution of labour reallocation to firms’ employment growth (between …

This paper examines the role of removing obstacles to competition in product markets in raising growth and productivity … deregulation in network sectors on value added and productivity of firms in these sectors, as well as firms using these …

The fourth issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … contains five articles. Topics covered are: recent productivity developments in the United States and Canada and implications … for the Canada-U.S. productivity and income gaps; the importance of skills for innovation and productivity; the diffusion …

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 …

by the adoption of a large stock of unexploited existing technologies. However, the slowdown in productivity growth over … investments in knowledge based capital, including managerial capital and R&D. Productivity growth, via more effective learning … spillovers from the global productivity frontier, and consequently, productivity growth. …

specification is based on a model of multifactor productivity (MFP) growth in which the effects of upstream competition can vary … upstream regulations have significantly curbed MFP growth over the past fifteen years, and more strongly so for observations …We identify the impact of intermediate goods markets imperfections on productivity downstream. Our empirical …