Eastern European (CEE) countries. The situation of hard-hit Hungary, Latvia, and Romania propelled unprecedented cooperation … this represents a European rescue of the Washington Consensus. The case of Latvia is paradigmatic for the profound …

Transport infrastructure has represented one of the cornerstones of development and cohesion strategies in the European … controversial. This paper revisits the question of to what extent transport infrastructure endowment - proxied by regional motorways … - has contributed to regional growth in the EU between 1990 and 2004. It analyses infrastructure in relationship to other …

How large are the benefits of transportation infrastructure projects, and what explains these benefits? To shed new … of local prices to local productivity shocks (but increased the transmission of these shocks between regions); (4 … estimated impact of railroads. These results suggest that transportation infrastructure projects can improve welfare …

disparate distribution of infrastructure, and that of education, and to an extent by a number of macroeconomic indicators, that …

panel of industries in 17 countries from 1993-2007. We find that industrial robots increased both labor productivity and ….37 percentage points. We also find that robots increased both wages and total factor productivity. While robots had no significant …

productivity of firms. However, there is less consensus about the underlying mechanism at work. While trade papers focus on access … leads to productivity increases, but only for firms that were already highly productive before. The evidence on import … competition is weaker. If anything, initially low-tech firms manage to increase their productivity in response to increased …

exporting and TFP growth, is mixed. We use a UK panel data set with firm-level information on exporting and productivity. Our … they learnt from other sources) in the past are more likely to then have productivity growth. This suggests some support …

Studies of firm-level data have shown that there is a huge dispersion of productivity across firms even when industries … productive. The formers’ convergence could therefore constitute an important part of productivity growth at the macroeconomic … which can explain it. Productivity convergence was stronger for labour productivity than for total factor productivity. But …

There is a substantial empirical literature quantifying the positive relationship between city size and productivity …. The paper draws out the implications of this productivity relationship for evaluations of urban transport improvements. A … theoretical model is developed and used to derive a wider cost-benefit measure that includes productivity effects. The order of …

should vary across firms. This study examined whether the relationship between HRM practices and productivity in … productivity, the relationship between HRM practices and subsequent productivity was stronger for firms with a poor climate. …