computer increase the productivity of an economy’s labor force and increase the per capita GDP. We find it is developing, not …

In this paper we study the efficiency and total factor productivity growth of Italian regions by implementing a … decomposition of productivity growth, conducted by means of Malmquist’s index, highlighted that also in Southern regions, in which …

general equilibrium model, this paper argues that climate change will negatively affect agricultural productivity in Africa …

Exogenous technical progress can have uneven impacts on productivity contingent on absorptive capacity, structural …. The capture parameter is the outcome of endogenous decision-making process. The ‘productivity bonus’ mechanism leaves room …

’ productivity gains from R&D spillovers from the research cluster decline with (i) increasing geographic distance away from the …

In this paper we analyze the relationship between R&D spillovers and productivity. To this aim, we use data from 9th … results provide evidence of higher productivity in R&D intensive industries and this can be interpreted as the signal of the …

, the sector also contributed in an indirect way to economic growth by generating knowledge and productivity spill-overs for … characterised by a relatively weak productivity growth. Does this contribute to growth stagnation tendencies à la the so …-called “Baumol disease”? The paper argues that there is no reason to expect this as long as the productivity and growth spill …