the market's basic function of grouping the lowest cost workers with the highest productivity firms. The present paper … productivity may displace firms with low evasive ability but high productivity. …

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 …

discussion on possible causes of productivity change in banking. We demonstrate how the banking sector’s service production can … productivity Tornqvist indices for six countries (Finland, Sweden, United Kingdom, Germany, France and Italy) over a period varying … 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 …

outlook. An Algebraic Model of the author infers that Productivity of the assisted nations should be with reference to their …

We examine experimentally how Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) respond to incentives and how they provide incentives in … higher efficiency levels than students. Moreover, we find that, for CEOs as well as for students, incentives based on … explicit threats to penalize shirking backfire by inducing less trustworthy behavior—giving rise to hidden costs of incentives …

In this paper labour productivity growth and its impacts are studied at the industry level. The development of … productivity is analysed in 54 industries in 14 EU countries and in the US between 1979 and 2001. The conclusion of the study is … that the industry structure that leads to fast productivity growth is connected to falling export prices. The relationship …

The article examines the optimal choice of monitoring intensity when workers face external incentives (incentives that … be more attractive to other employers. Increase in such external incentives reduces optimal monitoring intensity but …