misalignment on tariffs in order to analyze the impacts of misalignments on the trade relations between two customs unions – the EU … exchange rate misalignments on tariffs and its consequences for the javascript:void(0); trade negotiations between the two …

I summarize the main results and policy insights from the 2011 EIB Conference on “Productivity and Long-Term Growth … Potential in Europe.” Europe's need for productivity growth has become more pressing against the backdrop of huge government …-long learning should be fostered and more emphasis put on an ICT-literate workforce. Productivity-enhancing resource reallocation …

factor productivity in a large sample of Italian firms. By splitting the full sample on the basis of the ex-ante likelihood … shocks, provided they affect all firms randomly. Both market power and total factor productivity are estimated by applying …-sample of "most sensitive" firms a positive transitory shock to productivity growth rates is observed immediately after the …