employment, especially among young and small companies. Impacts on the productivity are, however, uncertain. Cooperation of … help firms to grow larger but do not improve their productivity. …

Corporate investment is crucial for productivity growth. When economic growth is sluggish and productivity growth weak … connection between public indebtedness and productivity growth from the point of view of private investment. According to … existing economic research, public debt crowds out private investment slowing down both economic and productivity growth. Our …

We compare the levels and development of labour productivity in different countries, especially in the private sectors … alternative productivity indicators. The calculations give us a better understanding of the uncertainties in productivity … relative to other countries. On the other hand, Finland has thus by now lost most of its earlier source of productivity growth …

Corporate investment is crucial for productivity growth. When economic growth is sluggish and productivity growth weak … connection between public indebtedness and productivity growth from the point of view of private investment. According to … existing economic research, public debt crowds out private investment slowing down both economic and productivity growth. Our …

have declined because of difficulties in telecommunication sector. Productivity analysis shows that high country-level R …&D expenditures - as in Finland and the United States - have positive correlation with labour productivity in manufacturing. Moreover …, labour productivity in manufacturing in OECD countries relates positively with FDI and R&D expenditure growth. Also the level …

&D efforts. Traditionally, the effects of R&D on productivity have been assessed from an econometrically estimated production … modelling the improvement of technology and the growth of total factor productivity. In this case, the residual of the … production function, which reflects total factor productivity, consists of two multiplicative components. The first component is …