productivity is difficult to investigate at a micro level, the paper builds on a large macro-data panel covering developed as well … demographics and the productivity of those who will still be active during the up-coming period of demographic ageing. As … output per worker as well as on total factor productivity (TFP). The results confirm earlier findings by Feyrer (2007 …

country. We employ the panel Granger causality testing approach of Konya (2006) that is based on SUR systems and Wald tests … panel member separately by taking into account the contemporaneous correlation across countries. Using annual data over the …

decentralisation empirically on a panel of OECD countries and finds a weak negative effect of decentralisation on total and …

Using bootstrap panel analysis, allowing for cross-country correlation, without the need of pre-testing for unit roots …

(industry) level by applying the Phillips-Sul (2007) tests for panel and club convergence. The main findings can be summarised … Telecommunication, both in a turn-around phase, and Gas & Oil and Technology, for which there is no panel convergence. Club convergence … tests reveal the existence of convergence clubs and divergent economies within the full panel, which explains why panel …

by applying “second generation” panel cointegration techniques. A unique identification strategy for the selection of sub …‐panels improves the robustness of panel cointegration tests and reveals that Laender finances are hardly sustainable …

total factor productivity growth (TFPG). Embedding Dobbelaere and Mairesse's (2009) generalization of Hall's (1990) approach … specification of competition based on relative profits. Using a large Dutch firm-level panel database over the period 1989-2005, we … competition measure does not affect the level of productivity change …

panel of 145 countries during the period 1970-2007. The main finding is that windfalls from international commodity price …

Phillips' tradition. For this purpose we apply FMOLS, DOLS, PMGE, MGE, DFE, and VECM methods to a nonstationary heterogeneous … dynamic panel including annual data for 119 countries over the period 1970-2010, and also carry out multivariate Granger …