productivity growth as well as the impact exerted by its components (hardware, software, and communications). The empirical …

The labor productivity effects of portability and connectivity of information and communication technology (ICT) are … productivity by 9% (corresponding to 5% output elasticity), portability by 32%, wireline connectivity by 14%, and wireless … marginal costs and returns. Although increasing ICT penetration can no longer be a major source of productivity growth in …

, productivity, and profitability. The roles of firm size, market concentration, and profitability in driving R&D effort parallel to …

There are many ways to measure productivity. The choice will depend on the suitability of each index to the main … vertically integrated sector corresponding to each final good. A weighted mean of these yields an index of aggregate productivity … suitable for measuring social welfare. Another index of aggregate productivity (this one related to the profit rate and …

gains in efficiency and productivity due to competitive pressure, and its distributional effects using a general equilibrium … has a positive effect on efficiency, productivity and poverty, but an adverse effect on the income distribution in the …

In this paper, I develop a regression-based system of labour productivity equations that account for capital …. Builders of regression-based forecasting models have long had difficulty finding labour productivity equations that exhibit the … "Solowian' property that movements in investment should cause accompanying movements in labour productivity. The production …

unbalanced growth effect (from differential rates of industry productivity growth). Finally, on the basis of regression analysis …

the cost and productivity effects, this specification is integrated into a flexible neoclassical cost function. …

This article reviews the different methods of constructing multilateral output and productivity indices for agriculture … the links between productivity growth, per capita income, and price levels. …

A competitive general equilibrium models is constructed and used to identify sources of productivity growth in Canada … find that periods of low productivity growth correspond to periods of high investment-specific technological change or high …