.2% in Germany and 22% in Italy. Household characteristics, including the level of indebtedness, appear to explain …

The study aims at describing productivity growth in the manufacturing sector for a selected panel of five European … countries using firm-level data. The paper explores the empirical regularities of firm productivity distribution across … countries. In particular, we assess the degree of persistence of firm relative productivity and consider its effect on aggregate …

Productivity (TFP) growth in CEE countries. We show that due to their deep integration in GVCs, CEE countries have been exposed to …

A growing body of literature indicates that competition increases bank soundness. Applying an industrial organization … role in the transmission from competition to soundness. We use a twopronged approach. First, we employ Granger causality … tests to establish the link between competition and measures of profit efficiency in banking, and find that competition …

monetary policy was up (down). Overall, we find that competition among banks and competition from financial markets result in a …

intermediate position, whereas in Italy competition declined significantly over time. The French, Japanese and UK loan markets were …This paper is the first that applies a new measure of competition, the Boone indicator, to the banking industry. This … approach is able to measure competition of bank market segments, such as the loan market, whereas many well-known measures of …

intensity of competition in firms' product markets, on the importance of collective wage bargaining and on other structural and …