number of national firm level studies on the innovation-productivity link have been conducted using new internationally … observations from Germany and Sweden. Applying a knowledge production function that gives the relationship between innovation input …, innovation output and productivity, we find to a very large extent a common cross-country story for knowledge intensive …

The missing effect of investments of firms in information and communication technologies on productivity is studied by …) has a stronger effect on the quality of services than on the productivity of the IT-using firm. IT investment seems to be … especially the most recent generation of IT as indicated by the number of PCs used is the source of productivity growth whereas …

Germany?s bank-based system of internal control, ownership concentration is harmful for productivity growth. …Productivity growth has been slow in many continental European countries over the last few decades, especially in … econometric analysis of firm performance in Germany. Based on a unique panel data set with detailed information on almost 400 …

governance and market discipline on productivity growth. We find that firms under concentrated ownership tend to show … significantly higher productivity growth. Financial pressure from creditors influences productivity growth positively, particularly … for firms in financial distress. Regarding market discipline, productivity grows faster when competition on product …

estimates for an extended production function framework reveal significant productivity effects of ICT in the German service … productivity differentials between firms. …

In order to assess the productivity effects of information and communication technologies (ICT), regressions based on … this paper, various estimation biases and econometric strategies to overcome their sources are discussed. The effects are …?GMM estimator yields evidence for significant productivity effects of ICT which are substantially smaller though than those …

-level productivity. The results are robust across different estimation techniques. …This paper analyses the impact of business process outsourcing (BPO) on firm productivity based on a comprehensive …

impact of public technology policies on innovation of firms located in Eastern Germany. The main question is whether public …

Germany. The main question in this context is whether public funds stimulate R&D activities or simply crowd out privately … financed R&D. Empirically, we investigate the average causal effects of all public R&D schemes in Eastern Germany using a non …