product market competition experience higher rates of productivity growth. We also find weak evidence for the notion that in …Productivity growth has been slow in many continental European countries over the last few decades, especially in … comparison with the United States. It has been argued that lack of product market competition and poor corporate governance are …

for firms in financial distress. Regarding market discipline, productivity grows faster when competition on product … governance and market discipline on productivity growth. We find that firms under concentrated ownership tend to show … significantly higher productivity growth. Financial pressure from creditors influences productivity growth positively, particularly …

number of national firm level studies on the innovation-productivity link have been conducted using new internationally …, innovation output and productivity, we find to a very large extent a common cross-country story for knowledge intensive …

The missing effect of investments of firms in information and communication technologies on productivity is studied by …) has a stronger effect on the quality of services than on the productivity of the IT-using firm. IT investment seems to be … especially the most recent generation of IT as indicated by the number of PCs used is the source of productivity growth whereas …

estimates for an extended production function framework reveal significant productivity effects of ICT in the German service … productivity differentials between firms. …

In order to assess the productivity effects of information and communication technologies (ICT), regressions based on … this paper, various estimation biases and econometric strategies to overcome their sources are discussed. The effects are …?GMM estimator yields evidence for significant productivity effects of ICT which are substantially smaller though than those …

of an ageing workforce, this paper measures the impact of changes in the age structure of establishments on productivity … methods. We find that establishment productivity increases with the share of employees until the age of 50-55 and only … account endogeneity, time dependencies, or crucial information correlated with age shares and productivity. Large standard …

-level productivity. The results are robust across different estimation techniques. …This paper analyses the impact of business process outsourcing (BPO) on firm productivity based on a comprehensive …

panel of German counties using a broad variety of estimation approaches. More specifically, we calculate efficiency indices …