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 …

We study the relation between firms financial structure, access to external finance and labor productivity using a … to estimate the direct impact of access to finance to firm-level productivity. We find negative and significant effects … opposed to Germany and Netherlands, countries like Italy and Portugal are the most affected by financial constraints, with an …

We use an industrial organisation approach to quantify the size of Total Factor Productivity Growth (TFPG) for euro … period. In addition, we observe that Total Factor Productivity growth for the median euro area bank decreased from around 2 …. Given the need to boost productivity and enhance profitability in the euro area banking sector, these findings suggests that …

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 …

productivity convergence among euro area countries. While no convergence can be found on the aggregate level, selected service … sectors and manufacturing sub-industries indicate evidence of convergence. In a search for factors influencing productivity …

prices with respect to the euro area: productivity growth and increased trade openness. Productivity growth can have a … productivity growth a positive one on price level convergence with respect to the euro area …

analysis of automobile prices in Italy during the period 1988-1998 …

differentials in explaining city-level house price dispersion in Germany, France, and the US (but not in Italy or Spain once …