What are the drivers of growth and convergence in productivity at regional level? Differences in the stock of human … exploiting a database covering European regions from 1995 to 2015, which includes regional total factor productivity (TFP …

The aim of this paper is to provide a contribution to the debate on the effectiveness of cohesion policies in Italy. It … reduction in the regional divide in terms of GDP pro capita, but they have had no impact on the dynamics of labour productivity …

A quarter-century after reunification, labor productivity in eastern Germany continues to lag systematically behind the … West. Denison-Hall-Jones point-in-time estimates point to large gaps in total factor productivity as the proximate cause …

practices of others. That some firms converge relatively slowly to the productivity frontier suggests the existence of factors … that cause them to underinvest in their productivity. In this paper we explore how far higher rates of corporate taxation … affect firm productivity convergence by reducing the after tax returns to productivity enhancing investments for small firms …

This paper studies the productivity impact of heterogeneous capital inputs of selected EU-15 member countries and of …