This paper investigates the role of information and communication technology (ICT) as a driver of improved productivity … performance of Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries and Russia (CEER) relative to the EU-15 and the U.S. during the 1990s …. The paper investigates how, and to what extent, ICT contributed to a narrowing in the productivity gap. Although …

On 11-12 November 2008, SUERF and Banque Centrale du Luxembourg organized a conference on Productivity in the Financial … main themes: first, stylized facts on banks' productivity developments and the measurement of productivity; second, sources … of productivity in banking; and third, the possible repercussions and consequences of the financial crisis on financial …

productivity change; when expenditure on consumer durables is recorded as capital investment. The capitalization of consumer … durables impacts both the levels and growth rates of the capital stock, productivity and GDP. Our growth accounting … productivity growth in 1995-2004. ICT's impacts were larger, i.e., one-fifth of GVA growth and one-sixth of labour productivity …

of proxy variables, whereas Total Factor Productivity is used as a measure of economic growth. Panel data of 26 European …. Business Birth Rate, Self-employment Rate, Business Investment and Labour Productivity Growth were all found to be highly … reflect the complexity of the notion. -- entrepreneurship ; total factor productivity ; economic growth ; the EU …

economic and price level convergence, respectively, refer to the narrowing of the income (productivity) and the price level gap … helps us understand, why net real wages are relatively low in these countries (as compared to their relative level of income/productivity …

This paper compares the effects of information and communication technology (ICT) on aggregate labour productivity … and (ii) total factor productivity (TFP) growth originating from ICT-goods production. We find that together these two … effects almost fully explain the US lead in labour productivity growth over the EU during the period 1995-2001. We also argue …

and productivity change; when expenditure on consumer durables is recorded as capital investment. The capitalization of … consumer durables impacts both the levels and growth rates of the capital stock, productivity and GDP. Our growth accounting … productivity growth in 1995-2004. ICT's impacts were larger, i.e., one-fifth of GVA growth and one-sixth of labour productivity …

factor revenue productivity across firms within an industry could have boosted valued-added 48 percent and 79 percent above …