characteristics and efficiency as the main determinants of their productivity. The application of this analysis to the European market …The paper specifies and estimates a production function for the airline industry, identifying firms' network … shows that productivity differences among flag carriers could explain the governments' different views about deregulation at …

This paper examines the relationship between foreign ownership and productivity, paying particular attention to two … productivity than foreign multinationals, but the difference is less stark in the service sector than in the production sector, and …

Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro …

creativity. Markets for intellectual assets protected by IP rights can produce too much or too little innovation. …

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 …

We use a new industry-level dataset to quantify the role of ICT in explaining productivity growth in the UK, 1970 … productivity growth in the market sector. Econometric evidence also supports an important role for ICT. We also find econometric …

markets explain both productivity differences and firm density. Estimating structural model parameters is simple and relies on … model, we find that labor markets which provide cost advantages explain substantial differences in firm productivity …

This paper estimates the impact of road improvements on firm employment and productivity using plant level longitudinal …, but not the employment of existing firms. We also find effects on labour productivity and wages at the firm level …