The services sector is increasingly important for the euro area economy, but productivity growth in the sector has … stalled over the past two decades. Remaining barriers to cross-border trade in services within the EU Single Market contribute … with political economy factors such as weak government support in parliaments, low government efficiency and high markups …

industry level significantly boosts productivity at both the industry and the firm level. Frontier firms, large firms, and … 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 …

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 … across Italy's provinces. Exploiting the large heterogeneity in the efficiency of the public sector across Italian provinces …

What drove the UK productivity slowdown post-GFC, and how is the post-Covid recovery expected to differ? This paper … traces the sources of TFP growth in the UK over the last two decades through the lens of a structural model of innovation …, using registry data on the universe of firms. The dominant innovation source in the pre-GFC decade were improvements by …