causation processes in shaping the productivity and comparative advantage of different regions. In the presence of such … increasing returns there may be persistent spatial disparities in productivity. Economic development will tend to be 'lumpy …

productivity. The “Solow Paradox” of the absence of an impact of ICT on productivity no longer holds, if it ever did. Both growth … accounting and econometric evidence suggest an important role for ICTs in accounting for productivity. In fact, the empirical … estimates suggest a much larger impact of ICT on productivity than would be expected from the standard neoclassical model that …

The US has experienced a sustained increase in productivity growth since the mid-1990s, particularly in sectors that … intensively use information technologies (IT). This has not occurred in Europe. If the US “productivity miracle” is due to a … abroad. This paper shows in fact that US multinationals operating in the UK do have higher productivity than non …

The productivity performance of the UK economy in the period 1990-2007 was excellent. Based entirely on pre-crisis data … discuss a wide range of hypotheses which seek to explain the productivity collapse, including the impact of austerity. Most of … financial crises, particularly banking crises, on productivity, capital, TFP and employment. Based on a cross-country panel …

export and productivity dynamics after a trade liberalization. In particular, the calibrated model predicts that financing … across productivity, volatility and financial wealth. We show that this endogenous distribution is crucial to understand … frictions have an ambiguous effect on the number of firms starting to export. They reduce the ability of firms to finance the fixed …

incentives and (b) innovation effects of the proposed remedy. We discuss the economic basis for the Commission’s claims that … and argue that the effects on innovation are not unambiguously negative as Microsoft claim. We conclude with some general … implications of the case for anti-trust enforcement in high innovation sectors. …

innovation distinguishing between “dirty” (internal combustion engine) and “clean” (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 … tax-inclusive fuel prices. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation both from aggregate spillovers … and from the firm's own innovation history. Using our model we simulate the increases in carbon taxes needed to allow …

interaction among firm-level internationalization, innovation and productivity across seven European countries (Austria, France … internationalization goes beyond export and because, in the medium to long term, internationalization is likely driven by innovation. We …-level characteristics across countries and sectors. We also find that the positive correlation between internationalization and innovation …