Chapter 1: The Productivity Puzzle – A critical assessment and an outlook on the COVID-19 crisis -- Chapter 2: Revisiting intangible capital and labour productivity growth, 2000-2015: Accounting for the crisis and economic recovery in the EU -- Chapter 3: The Rule of Law and Labour...

Why do cities differ so much in productivity? We document that most of the measured dispersion in productivity across US cities is spurious and reflects granularity bias: idiosyncratic heterogeneity in plant-level productivity and size, combined with finite plant counts. As a result, economies...

This paper surveys a wide range of studies on the impact of capital investment in intangible assets on labour productivity growth and highlights their main findings on. Surveying the literature at the country, industry and firm level, this paper finds evidence of the increasing importance of...