received their degree in the years 2000 to 2005 in Europe or the USA. Research productivity is evaluated alternatively as the … number of publications, results suggest a higher productivity by graduates from European universities than from USA … questions: Are there major productivity differences between graduates from American and European institutions? If so, how …

, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this …

We use UK micro data to explore whether planning regulation reduced UK retailing productivity growth between 1997 and … which increased the costs of opening large stores. This might have caused a slowdown in productivity growth if firms (a … productivity works out at about pound;80,000 per small chain supermarket store …

specification of TFP is based on a "neo-Schumpeterian" empirical specification in which productivity improvements depend on growth … at the global technological frontier and a catch up term. We assume that regulation can affect productivity growth both … to reduce the productivity performance of firms. The negative effect is particularly strong on firms characterised by an …

This paper provides evidence of the long-run effects of a permanent increase in agricultural productivity on conflict …. We construct a newly digitized and geo-referenced dataset of battles in Europe, the Near East and North Africa covering … the period between 1400 and 1900 CE. For variation in permanent improvements in agricultural productivity, we exploit the …

smaller scale of operations (as measured by sales revenues) and are less efficient in terms of Total Factor Productivity (TFP …

period 1994-2006 in Japan and 7,828 firms over the period 1993-2008 in the Netherlands, we first apply two procedures to …