market equilibrium and whether innovation subsidies can improve industry productivity by mitigating such a tax distortion. …Radical innovations require risk-taking. However, it is hard to find an objective measure for innovation investments … that would take riskiness into account. In this paper, we investigate how a simple measure of firms’ innovation investments …

productivity. An important issue, therefore, is how to measure allocative efficiency. We compare popular indicators of allocative … productivity and to the Olley-Pakes (OP) covariance component, which is currently the most popular measure of allocative efficiency …

liberalisation; strengthening competition in markets for goods and services; education, research and innovation. Progress is also …’éducation, la recherche et l’innovation. Des progrès sont également requis dans d’autres domaines, notamment pour promouvoir des …

In the 1990s, measured productivity growth decelerated dramatically in Japan. However, the standard Solow residuals may … important role in lowering measured productivity growth relative to true technology growth. Our results thus cast doubt on the … explanation of Japans "lost decade" that attributes the prolonged slump to the observed productivity slowdown. …

This study is to our knowledge the first attempt to infer the consequences on productivity entailed by anticompetitive … productivity in different ways and to different extents. A simulation based on these results and on OECD regulation indicators … suggests that nearly all countries, in particular European countries, could expect sizeable gains in multifactor productivity …

the Brazilian industry, if one analyzes the increase in productivity at the sectoral level and by firm size; (ii …) differences in productivity growth seem to be a consequence of a modernization effort undertaken by leading Brazilian companies …; (iii) there is an increase of the proportion of workers in low productivity (stagnant) sectors. …

Technologies (ICTs) in productivity growth, but this research has focused primarily on North America. In the fourth article … ICT capital is a primary driver of labour productivity growth in all UK sectors except mining and quarrying. He concludes … that the weaker productivity performance of the United Kingdom relative to the United States can be attributed mainly to …