This study analyses the role played by adjustment costs and R&D investment prices in total R&D productivity. The … results show that on average, for each monetary unit increase in adjustment costs produces a fall in productivity of 0 …

This work attempts to shed light on the “information technology productivity paradox”. Employing a large data set of … Italian manufacturing firms we compute ICT marginal productivity across different cluster of firms and the impact of …/introduction behaviour and firm’s technological investment aptitude have any role in explaining ICT productivity. We find that low capital …

This paper analyses the relationship between firm productivity and export behavior in German manufacturing firms. We … examine whether productivity increases the probability of exporting, and assert that there is a causal relationship from high … productivity to entering foreign markets, as postulated by the recent literature on international trade with heterogeneous firms …

Decompositions of productivity indices contribute to our understanding of what drives the observed productivity changes … factor productivity (TFP) to date. Starting from the Fisher ideal TFP index, we systematically isolate the productivity …