The objective of this paper is to contribute to the development of an evidence-based system to monitor progress towards the European Research Area (ERA) and a knowledge-based economy. We start with an overview of existing theory and empirical evidence on the role of international technology...

This paper provides an empirical analysis of decoupling economic growth and energy use and its various determinants by exploring trends in energy- and labour productivity across 10 manufacturing sectors and 14 OECD countries for the period 1970-1997. We explicitly aim to trace back aggregate...

This paper investigates productivity convergence in the Manufacturing sector for a set of European countries using a time series framework. We apply a panel data unit root test (PDUR) to total factor productivity (TFP) differentials, where the null hypothesis--the presence of a unit root or a...