The volume of work on productivity effects of research and development (R&D) investment has expanded significantly … to meta-analyse the research findings based on OECD firm and industry data, with a view to establish where the balance of … primary studies, we report that the average effect of R&D capital on productivity and the average rate of return on R …

firms with innovative experience. In an analysis based on firm-level panel data covering the period 1994-99, system GMM … estimates for an extended production function framework reveal significant productivity effects of ICT in the German service … productivity differentials between firms …

deepening and innovation for productivity. We employ a model that takes into account that innovation and ICT use may be … productivity appears to be of the same order of magnitude in the two countries. However, the direct impacts of innovation on multi …-factor productivity seems to be more robust for Germany than for the Netherlands …

productivity ; capacity utilization ; aggregation ; panel data …

This paper analyzes the productivity development in the German public theater sector for the seasons 1991 …/1992-2005/2006. Using a stochastic distance frontier approach that allows to decompose total factor productivity change into different … influence on productivity can be compensated by efficiency gains. The findings indicate an increase in real unit labor cost as a …

known about the productivity performance of the sector and its drivers in South Africa. The recent availability of firm … Africa for the first time. In this paper, we use firm-level data for the period 2010-13 to estimate total factor productivity …The manufacturing sector is an important source of productivity growth and exports. Manufacturing firms are generally …

consisting of resource reallocation, firm entry and exit, and productivity growth within continuing firms is carried out. Our … change shows that the high productivity growth has been mostly from within-firm productivity growth (e.g. the adoption of new …This paper presents one of the first studies of firm demographics in Estonia, particularly, on the processes of firm …

This paper aims to investigate the effect of knowledge characteristics on the total factor productivity of firms … developing drugs in the pharmaceutical industry. We decompose knowledge into knowledge associated with the technological firm … coherence vs. market coherence and of accumulated knowledge on the productivity of firms differs. Productivity increases with …

to the firm-level total factor productivity growth in the 90s. In fact, ten-percentage-point increase of debt-asset ratio … lowered the firm-level total factor productivity growth rate by 0.72 percentage point for 1999-2001 by way of withering R … quantitatively the extent to which debt outstandings in the 90s affected the firm’s R&D activities. We find that massive debt …