directions since then: Italy privatized its publicly-owned banks while Germany has maintained a large share of state … activities have affected banks' productivity in the period 1994-2004, differentiating between technical change, efficiency change … and scale economies. We find that privatized banks experienced a significant increase in productivity, especially if they …

firms always have a higher market share, there is no monotonic relationship between firms' productivity level and their … effect. Therefore, the incentive to add more products weakens as productivity rises. This leads to Lemma 3 in Feenstra and Ma …

We study the relation between the off-shoring of intermediates and services and productivity growth in the Italian … off-shoring") is beneficial for productivity growth, while the off-shoring of services is not. We also find that the way … productivity growth is there with our direct measures based on input-output data but disappears when either a broad measure or the …

inputs off-shoring. Third, in terms of the productivity dynamics over the period 1998-2003, exporters' performance in Italy …

The paper analyses the recent supply side developments in France, Germany, and Italy by employing a non … the pronounced worsening of total factor productivity. The paper is rounded out by estimates of some measures of wage …

or sector, it is their productivity advantage on the local firm to determine the positive effect on domestic productivity … significant and robust Veblen-Gerschenkrion effect. The initial total factor productivity advantage of MNEs on local firm acts as … a stimulus for productivity growth of local firms in the same region. …

values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility … contributions to welfare for a set of European OECD countries (Belgium, France, Great Britain, Italy, Spain), using industry …

first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between productivity and size of the export market for Germany, a leading … more productive than firms that sell their products in Germany only, but less productive than firms that export to …

presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on …. Results for West Germany support the hypothesis that the productivity differential between exporters and non-exporters is at … literature to document that the positive productivity differential of exporters compared to non-exporters is statistically …

Recent research on international productivity comparisons with historical data has encountered large discrepancies … argued that for Hoffmann's (1965) widely accepted time series for German industrial output, there is no such productivity …-German benchmark and the time series projection is considerable. Attempting to reconcile the time series evidence and the productivity …