In order to assess the productivity effects of information and communication technologies (ICT), regressions based on …-GMM estimator yields evidence for significant productivity effects of ICT which are substantially smaller though than those …

&D knowledge located in the US. The positive influence on total factor productivity is larger if the research of the inventors …

technology affects the efficiency and productivity in innovation of technology acquiring firms. Using the stochastic frontier … innovative productivity than non-acquiring firms do. Thus, this study provides evidence on complementarity between internal and … efficiency. Moreover, we find that firm size significantly contributes to innovative efficiency and productivity of external …

productivity growth in Europe, using the most recent Cambridge Econometrics regional database, EU KLEMS growth and productivity … accounts and EuroStat R&D data. We apply a reduced-form empirical specification for semi-endogenous productivity growth that … allows for differences in steady state income levels and long-run growth rates. Productivity growth in a region depends on …