dramatically during the same period. We examine the sources of Germany's productivity demise using the ifo industry growth …While the US experienced two successive labor productivity surges in 1995 and 2000, Germany's productivity declined … accounting database that provides detailed industry-level investment information. While much attention has focused on the …

) has a stronger effect on the quality of services than on the productivity of the IT-using firm. IT investment seems to be …The missing effect of investments of firms in information and communication technologies on productivity is studied by … sector. Using data from a survey of innovative activities in services we show that investment in information technology (IT …

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 …Using panel data for German and Dutch firms from the services sector, this paper analyses the importance of ICT capital …

This paper analyses the impact of business process outsourcing (BPO) on firm productivity based on a comprehensive … the production process is undisputed. Firms increasingly buy all or at least parts of selected services they need from … external service providers. This is especially true for services which rely to a great extent on new information and …

This paper analyses the impact of business process outsourcing (BPO) on firm productivity based on a comprehensive … the production process is undisputed. Firms increasingly buy all or at least parts of selected services they need from … external service providers. This is especially true for services which rely to a great extent on new information and …

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 …

We study the impact of broadband availability on firms’ total factor productivity (TFP) using German firm-level data … between 2010 and 2015. We adopt a control function approach to causally identify and separately estimate productivity for 46 … firms’ productivity in manufacturing, it significantly increases TFP in most service sectors. Yet, the size of the effect is …