. The estimation also enables us to predict changes in the growth of GDP per capita based on a scenario of CP funding …

inputs off-shoring. Third, in terms of the productivity dynamics over the period 1998-2003, exporters' performance in Italy … that only export abroad. Second, firms that engage in final goods off-shoring are more productive than firms that engage in …

We investigate the relationship between diversity and productivity in Europe using an original dataset covering the … consumption through positive or negative externalities, the joint estimation of price and income equations is needed to identify … the dominant effect. Based on this methodology, we find that diversity is positively correlated with productivity …

transmission, rather than on localized peer effects of the ethnic enclaves. The empirical estimation provides support to this …

This paper computes sectoral contributions to real labour productivity growth in Malta during the two decades since … 2000. The aim is to give an account of the sectoral developments affecting Malta's productivity growth in the twenty years … technique developed by Tang and Wang (2004), which allows for the decomposition of sectoral productivity growth into efficiency …

In this paper we provide firm-level evidence on the role of resource misallocation for total factor productivity … capital/labor productivity build up more capital/labor and that financial constraints play a significant role, especially in …