In a recent paper, Bloom et al. (2020) find evidence for a substantial decline in research productivity in the U …

during the crisis in 2008 and 2009, ICT-intensive firms were hit less hard with respect to their productivity. This holds in … innovations during that period which could explain their better productivity performance compared to non-ICT intensive firms. …

development as well as productivity and firm performance. Eventually, the survey does not only allow the identification of main …

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 …

Productivity growth has been slow in many continental European countries over the last few decades, especially in … product market competition experience higher rates of productivity growth. We also find weak evidence for the notion that in … Germany?s bank-based system of internal control, ownership concentration is harmful for productivity growth. …

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 … for firms in financial distress. Regarding market discipline, productivity grows faster when competition on product …

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 …?GMM estimator yields evidence for significant productivity effects of ICT which are substantially smaller though than those …