competitiveness measures. We compile a broad dataset including value added trade, gross exports and conventional and value added based … real exchange rates. To sharply focus on external competitiveness, a new price competitiveness indicator is introduced, the … or cost competitiveness. …

of positive effects emerge. With respect to takeovers of German companies by foreign investors, the productivity and … international, we find positive productivity and sales effects for relatively small companies investing abroad, and this …

, tax rates, other measures of the size of government, and measures of price competitiveness. Empirical analysis makes use … competitiveness do indeed constitute the main determinants of growth. However, also other variables like average working hours and the …

Studies of firm-level data have shown that there is a huge dispersion of productivity across firms even when industries … productive. The formers’ convergence could therefore constitute an important part of productivity growth at the macroeconomic … which can explain it. Productivity convergence was stronger for labour productivity than for total factor productivity. But …