across Europe. I show that the pattern of exit from gold can be understood in terms of variation in factors commonly …

This report presents new evidence relating to the effects of climate policy in Europe, particularly the European Union …

We revisit Western Europe's record with labor-productivity convergence, and tentatively extrapolate its implications … for the future path of Eastern Europe. The poorer Western European countries caught up with the richer ones through both … higher rates of physical capital accumulation and greater total factor productivity gains. These (relatively) high rates of …

In this paper, we show that ownership structures vary considerably across Europe, and that the dominant form …

aggregation problem introduces a bias into standard measures of firm productivity. We develop a theoretical model of heterogeneous …

productivity. The "Solow Paradox" of the absence of an impact of ICT on productivity no longer holds, if it ever did. Both growth … accounting and econometric evidence suggest an important role for ICTs in accounting for productivity. In fact, the empirical … estimates suggest a much larger impact of ICT on productivity than would be expected from the standard neoclassical model that …