productivity, wages and exports spillovers in developing, developed and transitional economies. Although theory can identify a …Governments the world over offer significant inducements to attract inward investment, motivated by the expectation of …

The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between a firm's R&D activities and its productivity using a …'s productivity, with an overall elasticity of about 0.125; this general result is largely consistent with previous literature in … impact on productivity of their R&D investments, at least as regards top European R&D investors. …

last decades. This paper tests the hypothesis that the lower European productivity performance in comparison with the US …The literature has pointed to different causes to explain the productivity gap between Europe and United States in the …&D investment into productivity gains. The proposed microeconometric estimates are based on a unique longitudinal database covering …

productivity of workers. In this paper I set out the conceptual basis for such measures, provide some historical examples, and then …

Korea, Mexico and Poland. Using industry-level data, we show that i) technology diffusion and productivity gains tend to be …

This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm …-country differences in key economic outcomes, such as productivity or output per capita, to differences in policies and institutions that … determinants of productivity at the firm-level and the evolution of the distribution of productivity across firms within each …

values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility …

face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the average productivity of survivors increases. These pro …

interactions that increase productivity), possibly reinforced by localised natural advantage. To distinguish between them, we nest … larger cities left-truncates the productivity distribution whereas stronger agglomeration right-shifts and dilates the … cannot explain spatial productivity differences. This result holds across sectors, city size thresholds, establishment …