This paper examines the potential role of innovation policy in enhancing long-term productivity growth in Russia. It …

-performing loans across banks. Higher capital buffers would bolster financial stability and help ensure access to market funding while …

capital position of the European banking system, using November 2013 stock market data. In the basic scenario to restore … capital to a market based leverage ratio of 3%, EUR 84 billion of extra capital would be needed for the largest 60 banks …

leading academics and OECD staff from the Economics Department, the Directorates of the Environment, Science and Technology …

As it takes time and effort to learn how to fully utilise new technology and realise its maximum potential productivity … gain, adoption of new technology tends to reduce productivity temporarily, even though the potential productivity gain in … potential explanation of the following two “productivity puzzles” reported in the Information Technology (IT) literature and in …

market play for productivity and firm dynamics. It exploits a new firm-level database for ten OECD countries and industry … and labour markets. Aggregate productivity patterns are largely the result of within-firm performance. But, the … play an important role. Industry productivity performance is negatively affected by strict product market regulations …

the case of Japan the gap in GDP per capita is essentially due to the lagging performance in labour productivity, the … in the degree of labour resource utilisation, as well as in the intensity of physical and human capital use and in the …

reduce productivity growth by reducing entrepreneurial activity. While the paper focuses on how taxes affect growth, it …

This paper surveys recent empirical studies exploring aggregate productivity growth based on firm dynamics, focusing on … micro-data from OECD countries. Aggregate productivity growth can be analysed as a sum of two separate processes. <I …>i</I>) Changes in productivity in individual firms at a given size (relative to market). And, <I>ii</I>) a reallocation process due …

the link between growth and factors of production (physical and human capital). The third section of the paper assesses …; finance; trade and competition policy; ‘social capital’; and, population and health issues ...<BR><P>Ce document examine la … un examen des implications relatives aux liens entre la croissance et les facteurs de production (capital humain et …