In the paper, the sources of productivity growth are investigated by an empirical analysis with micro data for West …. The empirical results reveal that innovative firms exhibit more productivity increases. Large firms exhibit more … productivity increases as compared with small firms, ceteris paribus, which hints towards scale economies at the firm level …

and regulation and productivity measurement of the German electricity industry in particular. The methodological approach … empirical productivity analyses based on a growth accounting fiamework. A major share of the data that are utilized for this … productivity analyses. …

Theo S. Eicher and Thomas Strobel present an industry-level account of the recent changes in German productivity growth … in 1995 and again in 2000, Germany experienced dual reductions in labor productivity growth. Some European economies … fared better and others even worse than Germany. Since productivity is the ultimate determinant of living standards, the …