euro has been accompanied by a reallocation of activity within rather than across sectors. Since its adoption, productivity …

This study compares labor and total factor productivity (TFP) in France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United … experienced contrasting advances in productivity, in particular as a result of unequal investment in information and communication … technology (ICT). The past 120 years have been characterized by: (i) rapid economic growth and large productivity gains in all …

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 …

improve productivity downstream. We confirm such prediction by estimating a model of multifactor productivity growth in which … to the productivity frontier. …

This study is an attempt to evaluate the effects of product and labour market regulations on industry productivity …-factor productivity is negatively and significantly influenced by both indicators of industrial prices from same industry and weighted … all countries could expect sizeable gains in multifactor productivity from deregulation reforms. …

through which upstream sector anticompetitive regulations may impact productivity growth: business investments in R&D and in … data such as improvements in skills, management and organization. For this, we specify an extended production function … relating productivity explicitly to R&D and ICT capital as well as to upstream regulations, and two factor demand functions …

differences in the efficiency of production, as measured by relative levels of total factor productivity, are the dominant factor … persist under prevailing rates of saving and productivity change. To check the robustness of these conclusions, we employ …