This paper examines the relationship between competition, innovation and productivity for the Netherlands. We use … innovation data from Community Innovation Survey with accounting data to link innovative activities with performance at the … industry level. We find strong evidence for a positive impact of competition on Total Factor Productivity (TFP) at the industry …

This paper examines the role for tax policies in productivity-shock driven economies with \catching …

This study investigates the impact of corporate governance and product market competition on total factor productivity … growth in Germany and the UK.For Germany, the prototype of a bank-based governance system, productivity grows faster in firms … beneficial impact. Furthermore, the importance of the German creditors (mostly banks) for productivity growth is particularly …

to an innovation-based economy.The approach undertaken is prominently empirical.After a very brief description of the …

decomposition of productivity growth into technical change and efficiency change.The terms can now be broken down by sector as well …