Over the last two decades privatization programs in different countries radically reduced the role of the State as a …'s principal-agent structure following privatization, and incentives to invest in R&D and to patent. We compare the pre and post … privatization R&D effort and patenting behavior of 35 companies that were fully or partially privatized in 9 European countries …

indicators such as employment, turnover, and labour productivity growth. We exploit a unique dataset of 773 Italian service firms … employment, turnover, and labour productivity from the System of the Enterprise Account (SEA). We specify a Gibrat-like empirical … and turnover and a consequent not significant effect on labour productivity growth. The effect on employment is partly in …

The paper addresses the relevancy of networking activities and R&D as main drivers of productivity performance and … on productivity drivers and on complementarity between R&D and networking strategies, with respect to firm productivity … and process/product output innovation. R&D is a main driver of innovation and productivity, even without networking. This …

environmental regulation on innovation and on productivity generally in separate analyses and mostly focusing on the USA. The few … performance indicators such as exports. We instead look at overall innovation and productivity impact that are the most relevant … with most of the literature. On the other front, we find no evidence in favor or against the "strong" PH, as productivity …