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

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 …

first order stochastic dominance it is shown that, in line with this hypothesis, the productivity distribution of foreign …

While the role of exports in promoting growth in general, and productivity in particular, has been investigated … at the firm level been used to look at the extent and causes of productivity differentials between exporters and their …, exporters are found to be more productive than non-exporters, and the more productive firms self-select into export markets …

We examine the contribution of incremental and radical innovations to total factor productivity (TFP) growth at the … firm level. The first part of our analysis is dedicated to the determinants of innovation and reveals two different … innovation regimes. On the one hand, radical innovations rely strongly on firm-level spillovers, including property rights, and …

industry in most cases, however, has displayed stagnating productivity growth, in some periods even a fall in productivity …. Does this fast-growing industry with a bad productivity record present a threat to aggregate productivity growth and, hence …. The business services industry has an important role in the national innovation system and in knowledge spillovers to …

which the use of training and/or innovation by a workplace increases the likelihood that is has higher labour productivity … than its competitiors, and experiences high labour productivity growth. …