After 20 years of transition from an economy integrated in an exchange scheme of planned economies towards an open … international division of labour. We concentrate on the question, to what extent they have caught up with the productivity level of … their Western counterparts of similar size and sector and how this productivity difference is related to changes in their …

This paper, which is one of the first to estimate productivity in retail electricity for a European country after … services as the main inputs. A structural model is used with a proxy function for productivity to overcome the endogeneity of … input choice. Ownership is controlled for in the law of motion for productivity. The results of the dataset used to validate …

the productivity effect of three strategies in new public management: corporatisation, outsourcing, and partial … privatisation. Firm-level productivity is estimated from production data using a control function approach. As most of the firms are … outsourcing and corporatisation positively impact productivity, while partial privatisation does not increase productivity. …

We study the impact of broadband availability on firms' total factor productivity (TFP) using German firm-level data … between 2010 and 2015. We adopt a control function approach to causally identify and separately estimate productivity for 46 … firms' productivity in manufacturing, it significantly increases TFP in most service sectors. Yet, the size of the effect is …

, cloud usage is expected to increase the productivity of firms, as it allows them to quickly customize the IT they require to … IT investment in any sectors, it does significantly improve labor productivity for firms in manufacturing and in …