companies. We argue that this may lead to estimation bias as damage data and the selection into the database may correlate with …

While the US experienced two successive labor productivity surges in 1995 and 2000, Germany’s productivity declined … dramatically during the same period. We examine the sources of Germany’s productivity demise using the ifo industry growth … deeply lacking in the mid 1990’s as compared to the US. The transition to the new economy mitigated the German productivity …

This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly … conditional mean of labor productivity: through an observed binary indicator, an observed intensity variable or through the … Community Innovation Survey. The results provide evidence of robust unidirectional causality from innovation to productivity and …

We adopt a spatial econometric approach to estimate intra- and inter-industry productivity spillovers in total factor … productivity transmitted through input-output relations in a sample of 13 OECD countries and 15 manufacturing industries. Both R …

, rapidly narrowed the productivity gap with advanced economies. In contrast, in countries of the Commonwealth of Independent … States, which embarked on reforms later and contented with less depth, the productivity gap remains substantial. While the …