the relative importance of national, regional and spatial factors for explaining variations of productivity. Our analysis … shows that initial economic conditions or agglomeration and centrality are indeed relevant for differences in productivity … levels. What is far more important, however, is which country a region belongs to. Productivity differences in the European …

This paper proposes a simultaneous-equation approach to the estimation of the contribution of transport infrastructure …

In this paper, the process of productivity convergence is investigated for the enlarged European Union using regional …

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

and total factor productivity growth) becomes stronger as fiscal decentralization increases. …

This paper analyzes the effect of agglomeration economies on firms’ total factor productivity. We propose the use of a … firms’ own efforts to foster productivity through creating and absorbing knowledge. Finally, radii as well as administrative …

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 …

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 … by bilateral technological proximity. By adopting estimation methods reflecting recent developments in the treatment of …