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

Cost-efficiency, scale efficiency, and productivity change are estimated by data envelopment analysis; and cost-efficiency … is regressed on explanatory variables. No evidence is found for average productivity responding to deregulation over the …

time, industry-level analysis suggests ample scope to raise productivity, especially in services where productivity gains …

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 …

Advanced economies have been witnessing a pronounced slowdown of productivity growth since the global financial crisis … productivity slowdown over the past two decades in four closely integrated European countries, Austria, Denmark, Germany and the … Netherlands, based on firm-level data. Participation in global value chains appears to have affected productivity positively …

This paper assesses productivity trends in Canada vis-a-vis the United States from two perspectives. The first one is … based on estimates of total factor productivity. The second one decomposes productivity growth into two sources: investment … underlying cause of the pickup in productivity in Canada and the narrowing of the productivity gap with the United States …

The paper analyzes the efficiency and profitability of Japanese banks from 2000-06. It uses a non-parametric approach …, the data envelopment analysis (DEA) to analyze banks'' cost and revenue efficiency. The results show that the performance … is low compared to that in other advanced countries, there is considerable potential for efficiency gains, particularly …

aggregate supply, productivity, and demand shocks. We estimate a large increase in the failure rate of SMEs under COVID-19 of …

, asset prices and inflation. Korea's demographic trends seem to track Japan's with a lag of about 20 years. Low productivity …This paper draws out the parallels between Korea and Japan in terms of demographics, potential growth, balance sheets … reforms. While Korea's corporate balance sheets are stronger than Japan's in the early 1990s, Korea needs to progress with the …

Three years have passed since the Bank of Japan’s asset purchase program was introduced in 2011, causing a sharp … decline in the value of the Japanese Yen. What would be the implications for Japan and Korea’s exporters if the weak Yen is … shocks. We find that if the weak Yen persists, it would strengthen Japan’s price competitiveness over time as export prices …