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 …

productivity in the UK while leaving the long run growth rate unaffected. Based entirely on pre-crisis data, and using a two …

Do “Anglo-Saxon” management practices generate higher productivity only at the expense of lousy work-life balance (WLB … tool that companies can use to raise productivity. We try to shed some empirical light on these issues using an innovative … the optimistic “winwin” view that work-life balance improves productivity in its own right. Rather we find support for a …

and decentralization. Productivity dispersion between firms and countries has motivated the improved measurement of firm … identification of the productivity effects of organizational practices remain a challenge for future research. …

The behaviour of labour productivity in the United Kingdom since the onset of the recessionin early 2008 constitutes a … crisis to have both a short-run effect on the growth rate of labour productivity and along-run effect on its level is … on average reduces theshort-run growth rate of labour productivity by between 0.6 and 0.7 per year and thelong-run level …

across productivity, volatility and financial wealth. We show that this endogenous distribution is crucial to understand … export and productivity dynamics after a trade liberalization. In particular, the calibrated model predicts that financing … negligible net effect on the number of exporting firms, reduce the aggregate productivity gains induced by trade liberalization by …

three questions (a) What is the source of knowledge flows? (b) To what extent do such flows contribute to productivity …