This paper addresses the recent evolution of productivity and competitiveness in Catalonia and their links with the … innovation activity of firms. Firstly, it summarizes the evolution of productivity, competitiveness, firms' strategies and the …, productivity and competitiveness. Innovation has a positive impact on productivity and competitiveness. First of all, innovation …

In the article the questions of estimation of competitiveness of production, estimates of the consumer characteristics …

This paper analyzes national and regional efficiency and total factor productivity of Spanish hotels. The nonparametric … frontier DEA methodology has been used to assess the levels of efficiency of the hotel firms and Malmquist indices to estimate …. The results also show the rates of change in productivity in the period and its main determinants: efficiency change and …