Measuring factor productivity has been important in economics since its early days as a scientific discipline for a number of reasons. The first is the availability of systematically collected agricultural data after World War I, which allowed researchers to motivate and test newly developed...

This paper is concerned with measuring and influencing the direction of technological change. First, it provides a comprehensive assessment of the factor bias of technological change using panel data from the World Input-Output Database (WIOD) for 25 EU countries from 1995 to 2009. We measure...

Die veränderten ökonomischen Rahmenbedingungen im Zuge der sich seit Anfang der 1990er Jahre beschleunigenden Globalisierung des Wirtschaftens stellen neue Anforderungen sowohl an die „Regionalpolitik für die Regionen“, also die regionale Strukturpolitik durch EU, Bund und Länder, als...