-intensive manufacturing industries and is positively correlated with growth in total factor productivity across countries and industries …

This paper serves as another complementary link in a chain of a rather limited number of investigations in the R&D-innovation-productivity … relationship within service industries. Innovation has been found to be a major contributor to productivity growth in manufacturing … evidence that the reported weak rate of productivity growth in knowledge intensive services can be explained by a low …

European industries are under pressure regarding their environmental performance and productivity growth. The current … of firm's competitiveness. This paper studies environmental productivity and its components at a European industrial … results point out that industrial environmental productivity has deteriorated across Europe with best practice change being …

The study aims at describing productivity growth in the manufacturing sector for a selected panel of five European … countries using firm-level data. The paper explores the empirical regularities of firm productivity distribution across … countries. In particular, we assess the degree of persistence of firm relative productivity and consider its effect on aggregate …

To what extent has input reallocation contributed to aggregate productivity growth in the banking sectors of Europe and … productivity has grown by reallocating inputs through the first half of the sample period, at the same time when reallocation … reallocation is an important driver of increases in productivity. …

Since the information and communications technology revolution, productivity growth in Southern European countries has … been substantially lower than in developed European countries. I document that Spanish firms have lower productivity growth … a model featuring endogenous firm productivity growth through innovation investment and size-dependent financial …