. Other contributors to productivity growth in firms are workforce aging, access to finance, and skills mismatches …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 …

Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Spain and Portugal. The stability of Germany is a close proxy for the resilience of the euro … during 2009–12 were due to idiosyncratic factors, market developments in Italy and Spain contributed significantly, likely …’s sovereign CDS despite initial widespread concerns about such linkages. Spain and Italy show a notable co-dependence in …

output and total factor productivity (TFP) in the wake of a crisis. Second, we develop a DSGE model with financial frictions …

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

The paper investigates how changes in industries'' funding costs affect total factor productivity (TFP) growth. Based …