nearly one third of euro area labour productivity growth. The results point to a significant decline in the contribution of … total factor productivity to euro area growth …

The study aims at describing productivity growth in the manufacturing sector for a selected panel of five European … countries using firm-level data. The paper explores the empirical regularities of firm productivity distribution across … countries. In particular, we assess the degree of persistence of firm relative productivity and consider its effect on aggregate …

This paper analyses the impact of changes in environmental regulations on productivity growth at country- and firm …, according to which firms’ productivity can benefit from more stringent environmental policies. By using panel local projections … tightening affects high-polluters’ productivity negatively and stronger than their less-polluting peers. However, among high …

-varying parameters median-unbiased estimation methodology, to investigate changes in the equilibrium rate of growth of labor productivity …-WWII era. Results for the U.S. well capture the 'conventional wisdom' of a golden era of high productivity growth, the 1950s … mid-1990s. Evidence clearly suggests the 1990s' productivity acceleration to have reached a plateau over the last few …

and productivity change; when expenditure on consumer durables is recorded as capital investment. The capitalization of … consumer durables impacts both the levels and growth rates of the capital stock, productivity and GDP. Our growth accounting … productivity growth in 1995-2004. ICT's impacts were larger, i.e., one-fifth of GVA growth and one-sixth of labour productivity …

Productivity performance in European countries has been a policy concern for some time. This paper shows that … productivity can be enhanced by product market policies which, by increasing competition and efficiency, facilitate higher rates of … churning, in turn, appears to be positively related to higher total factor productivity at the sector level by facilitating the …