O4 - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity

• Firm Size and Productivity

  Staff Working Paper 2008-45 Danny Leung, Césaire Meh, Yaz Terajima

  This paper examines the relationship between firm size and productivity. In contrast to previous studies, this paper offers evidence of the relationship not only from manufacturing firms, but from non-manufacturing firms as well.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Productivity JEL Code(s): L, L1, L11, L2, L25, O, O4, O47

• Driving Forces of the Canadian Economy: An Accounting Exercise

  Staff Working Paper 2008-14 Simona Cociuba, Alexander Ueberfeldt

  This paper analyses the Canadian economy for the post 1960 period. It uses an accounting procedure developed in Chari, Kehoe, and McGrattan (2006). The procedure identifies accounting factors that help align the predictions of the neoclassical growth model with macroeconomic variables observed in the data.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Labour markets, Potential output, Productivity JEL Code(s): E, E2, E24, E6, E65, O, O4, O41, O5, O51

• Understanding Productivity: A Review of Recent Technical Research

  Staff Discussion Paper 2008-3 Richard Dion, Robert Fay

  The authors provide an extensive review of the rapidly expanding research on productivity, both at the macro and micro levels. They focus primarily on papers written about Canada, but also draw on selected studies from other countries, especially the United States, where such work sheds important light on particular aspects of productivity growth. The authors […]

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff discussion papers Topic(s): Productivity JEL Code(s): D, D2, D24, O, O3, O31, O4, O40, O47