Italy and Germany have similar geographical differences in productivity – North more productive than South in Italy …; West more productive than East in Germany – but have adopted different models of wage bargaining. Italy sets wages based on …

Italy's aggregate productivity abruptly stopped growing in the mid-1990s. This stop represents a puzzle, as it occurred … using sector and firm-level data. We find that Italy's productivity disease was most likely caused by the inability of … prevalence of loyalty-based management in Italy is not simply the result of a failure to adjust, but an optimal response to the …

This study compares labor and total factor productivity (TFP) in France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United … extent also to France and Japan, a relative decline that was interrupted by the second world war (WW2); (iii) the remarkable … catching-up to the United States by France and Japan after WW2, that stopped in the case of Japan during the 1990s. Capital …

In the aftermath of World War II, Italy and France experienced high inflation. The two countries enacted remarkably … similar economic policy measures, but stabilization came at different times: for Italy at the end of 1947, for France a year …