This paper studies the effect of public sector efficiency on firm productivity using data from more than 400,000 firms … significantly reduces the labor productivity of private sector firms. The results suggest that raising public sector efficiency …

This paper explains in detail the construction of series for productivity in the traded and nontraded sectors for a … panel of 56 countries spanning 1989–2012. The level of productivity in each sector is defined as real value added per worker … more disaggregated industry source data; and (ii) it allows for meaningful comparisons of the level of productivity across …

Productivity growth in Italy has been persistently anemic and has lagged that of the euro area over the period 1999 … long-term impact of persistent corporate-debt accumulation on the productivity growth of Italian firms and investigates … whether total factor productivity growthvaries with the level of corporate indebtedness. We employ a novel estimation …

We provide broad-based evidence of a firm size premium of total factor productivity (TFP) growth in Europe after the …

Capital misallocation is widely thought to be an important factor underpinning productivity and income gaps between … productivity. The analysis reveals that the link between productivity and bank credit growth is weaker for firms with significant …

measures differences in labor productivity (the Ricardian measure), and the other differences in total factor productivity (the …

have also contributed to increasing productivity and long-term growth. We explore empirically the impact of GVC … participation on productivity in Estonia using firm-level data from 2000 to 2016. We find that higher GVC participation at the … industry level significantly boosts productivity at both the industry and the firm level. Frontier firms, large firms, and …