policies to cross-country differences in productivity, innovation and resource allocation. This paper describes the steps taken … to and the trade-offs involved in constructing firm-level total factor productivity (TFP) measures using ORBIS, a cross … productivity measures can be calculated using readily available variables for all countries, and presents possible solutions to …

inter-related sources of labour productivity weakness: the survival of “zombie” firms (firms that would typically exit in a … misallocation and the increasing survival of low productivity firms have contributed to the productivity slowdown. …

their interest payments – are stifling labour productivity performance. The results show that the prevalence of and … resources sunk in zombie firms have risen since the mid-2000s and that the increasing survival of these low productivity firms … productivity-enhancing capital reallocation. Besides limiting the expansion possibilities of healthy incumbent firms, market …

The correlation between a firm’s size and its productivity level varies considerably across OECD countries, suggesting … that some countries are more successful at channelling resources to high productivity firms than others. Accordingly, we … examine the extent to which regulations affecting product, labour and credit markets influence productivity, via their effect …

measures perform well in regression analysis explaining productivity across OECD countries and over time. In OECD samples …

potential effects of fiscal decentralisation on a set of outcomes such as GDP, productivity, public investment and school …