over 600 Italian banks over the period 1989-2000. We estimate stochastic cost and profit functions allowing for individual … adoption of new technologies. We find that both cost and profit frontier shifts are strongly correlated with IT capital …

the dynamics of labor productivity (value added per worker, a synthetic measure of capital deepening, labor quality and … total factor productivity) and of employment. We find that the ongoing slowdown in EMEs is largely structural, but there is …-sector productivity improvements. The scope for further reform and reform priorities differs across countries. In the longer run other …

accumulation process. The model integrates efficiency wages due to imperfect monitoring of the quality of labour in a search and … is generated endogenously by efficiency wages. …

include ICT investment and R&D as the two main inputs of innovation and productivity. We find that R&D and ICT are both … strongly associated with innovation and productivity, with R&D being more important for innovation and ICT for productivity. We …

significant economies of scale (electronic products and motor vehicles). Our study links unsatisfactory productivity gains and the …

of women�s labour market participation and the high share of self-employment. It exploits the Bank of Italy�s survey …