How can a country improve the productivity growth in its business sector and reach its growth potential? Sweden during …

's foreign intelligence service to sector-specific gaps in total factor productivity (TFP) between West and East Germany. Based …

Productivity. We endogenize the accrual of the R&D stocks by estimating an R&D investment function. We find that the marginal …

models suggest that a shortfall in productivity-enhancing investments temporarily slows technological progress, creating a …-level exposure to the 2008-9 financial crisis, I show that tight credit reduced investments in productivity-enhancement, and has … 12% higher today if productivity-enhancing investments had grown at pre-crisis rates. …

SMPEs with positive taxable income increased investment, interest expense and productivity. SMPEs in taxable losses did not …

We investigate how changes in firm productivity after M&As are affected by differences in profit taxation between the … M&A and thus inhibit the realization of productivity improvements. Using firm-level data on inputs and outputs of … reduces the subsequent total factor productivity gain. This effect is concentrated in horizontal M&As and less pronounced when …

may even reduce welfare. The reason is that it crowds out proprietary innovation which on net may reduce total innovation … in the long run. These effects would be reinforced if philanthropical innovation diverted people from other productive …

Heterogeneous firm productivity seems to provide an argument for governments to pursue 'pick-the-winner' strategies by …, favoring high-productivity firms is indeed the optimal policy. When tax competition is aggressive and profit taxes are low …, however, the optimal tax policy is reversed and low-productivity firms are tax-favored. -- business taxation ; firm …

drives low-productivity firms from the small country's home market, replacing them with high-productivity exporters from … abroad. This endogenous policy response creates a selection effect that increases the average productivity of home firms when …