This empirical analysis aims at assessing the effect of the economic climate and the intensity of capital utilisation on companies? capital retirement behaviour. It is conducted using individual company data, as well as original data on the degree of utilisation of production factors. The sample...

The development and spread of information and communication technologies (ICTs) fuelled by the very rapid and steady improvement in their performance, lead to a sustained increase in productivity gains. These productivity gains are likely to increase the potential output growth, in the medium to...

ICT productive performances have slowed down since the beginning of the 2000s, before the current crisis. This diagnosis could be due, at least partly, to some statistical mis-measurements of ICT improvements. Nevertheless, improvements in ICT performances will probably be positively impacted,...