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 …

thus its inherent capacity for productivity gains, has progressively freed labour for non-productive or service work. The …

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 …

The Information and Communication technology(ICT) environment in the economic community of west african states … understanding and knowledge of the innovative effects of ICT poverty reduction and human development; and to improve ECOWAS … capacities to formulate and implement national ICT policies that promote equitable access to ICT and information for socio …

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 … introduction). However, what really matters in explaining ICT productivity is the level of innovation the new capital embodies. In …

productivity Tornqvist indices for six countries (Finland, Sweden, United Kingdom, Germany, France and Italy) over a period varying … discussion on possible causes of productivity change in banking. We demonstrate how the banking sector’s service production can … from 11 to 20 years. According to the results, Finnish banking sector productivity has improved via a substantial reduction …

a non-homothetic technology. Observable skills are not quantitatively important as determinants of productivity …