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 …

countries outside Europe.The empirical findings on the importance of institutions are robust to various measures of output …

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 …

, with productivity in Southern Europe going into reverse. This paper analyzes which factors - whether country-level or firm …Between 2003 and 2008 productivity patterns diverged between the fast growing, newest members of the European Union and …-specific ones - contributed more to the emergence of a three-speed Europe. The analysis combines firm-level data with country …

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 …

Network (CompNet). The new database provides information on the distribution of labour productivity, TFP, ULC or size of firms …, within each industry, but also their joint analysis with the productivity of the firm provides critical insights to both … productivity developments and its drivers. For instance, by using covariances between productivity and employment the paper shows …

Labor productivity is more procyclical in OECD countries with lower employment volatility. To capture this new stylized … our model with variable effort, greater labor market frictions are associated with procyclical labor productivity as well … data. By implication, labor market deregulation has a greater effect on the cyclicality of labor productivity and on the …

database of comparable productivity indicators built by members of the Competitiveness Research Network (CompNet) using a newly ….g. productivity and size. The database comprises so far 11 countries, with information for 58 sectors over the period 1995-2011. The … results. Among them, it shows that there is large heterogeneity in terms of firm productivity or size within narrowly defined …

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. …

between productivity and bank credit in the context of different financial market set-ups, we introduce a model of overlapping … and Italy to explore the relation between bank credit and productivity following the main derivations of the model. We … estimate an extended set of elasticities of bank credit with respect to a series of productivity measures of firms. We focus …