This study is to our knowledge the first attempt to infer the consequences on productivity entailed by anticompetitive … productivity in different ways and to different extents. A simulation based on these results and on OECD regulation indicators … suggests that nearly all countries, in particular European countries, could expect sizeable gains in multifactor productivity …

are total factor productivity, capital intensity (capital stock per hours worked), working time and employment rate. Over … countries, especially because of the surge in Total Factor Productivity (TFP) and in capital intensity. The main results of the …

In order to examine innovation diffusion and convergence processes, we study productivity trends, trend breaks and … levels for 13 advanced countries over 1890-2012. We highlight two productivity waves, a big one following the second … could be implemented, emphasizing a long diffusion process. The productivity leader changed during the period under study …

from a productivity acceleration linked to a catch-up of the US ICT diffusion level. And they could benefit, without any … delay with the US, from the possible ICT productivity growth second wave. …

This study compares labor and total factor productivity (TFP) in France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United … experienced contrasting advances in productivity, in particular as a result of unequal investment in information and communication … technology (ICT). The past 120 years have been characterized by: (i) rapid economic growth and large productivity gains in all …