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 …

This paper addresses the issue of estimating and forecasting productivity growth trends in the US and Germany from the … productivity to derive a model for short- and/or long-term forecasts of labour productivity. We will use stability tests and a … for long-term forecasts and argue in favor of a near unit-root modelling. That implies a convergence of productivity …

technology affects the efficiency and productivity in innovation of technology acquiring firms. Using the stochastic frontier … innovative productivity than non-acquiring firms do. Thus, this study provides evidence on complementarity between internal and … efficiency. Moreover, we find that firm size significantly contributes to innovative efficiency and productivity of external …

linkage between channels of international knowledge spillovers and total factor productivity. We distinguish between domestic … contribution of technology transfer to industrial productivity. To account for technological distance, we weight foreign knowledge … mainly drives productivity in the respective sector. -- Knowledge Spillover ; Total Factor Productivity ; Manufacturing …

technological progress is much more evenly distributed across sectors than TFP. -- Total Factor Productivity ; Generalized Malmquist … Productivity Index ; sectoral technical change …

We analyze the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity in MSMEs with a special focus on micro firms with fewer … their labor productivity. Overall, the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity in micro firms does not largely differ …