There have been sharp movements in productivity growth in the euro area and in the United States recently, upwards in …

United States or Sweden. Nevertheless the contribution to the long run growth of labour productivity stemming from even the …

Recent research has emphasised the role of trade in productivity growth. The purpose of the present paper is to … imports and productivity growth. We focus on the European Union and find intra-union imports to have more of an effect on … total factor productivity growth than imports from the outside of the EU, even if only developed nonmember countries are …

In this paper we (1) estimate the effects of international R&D spillovers on total factor productivity growth of the …

productivity growth, and production efficiency improvement. In addition, this paper incorporates the quality of inputs in analyzing … output growth, where the productivity of capital depends on its average age, while the productivity of labor depends on its … the improved quality of factors or total factor productivity growth in explaining output growth. The quality of capital …

Knowledge accumulation in the richer countries provides them with comparative advantages in higher productivity … products. The countries that import the higher productivity intermediate products and capital equipments produced in the richer … productivity level associated with a country's imports. Using instrumental variable method (to address the endogeneity problems …

production technology. Then we estimate the total factor productivity series for each classification. Using determinants of total … factor productivity that include, among many others, human capital, openness, and distortion of domestic prices relative to … productivity. …

Recent trade theory suggests that the relationship between trade and productivity is fundamentally ambiguous. This … study investigates the cointegration and causal relationship between productivity growth and export growth for a number of … productivity and exports are causally related in the long run for each economy. The results suggest that export growth contributes …