productivity (TFP) growth in a sample of 30 European economies for the period 1994-2005. In most of Western Europe, we find a … market regulation may adversely affect TFP growth and may thus impair convergence. -- Total factor productivity growth …

Wirtschaftspolitik und ihr soll in dieser Arbeit nachgegangen werden. -- export-led growth ; trade ; productivity ; firm heterogeneity …

Recent research on international productivity comparisons with historical data has encountered large discrepancies … argued that for Hoffmann's (1965) widely accepted time series for German industrial output, there is no such productivity …-German benchmark and the time series projection is considerable. Attempting to reconcile the time series evidence and the productivity …

systematic total factor productivity di¤eren- tials persist despite identical institutional frameworks and significant investment …