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 …

by large regional disparities, Germany and Italy. While income gaps and population structures are similar in the two …

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 …

This paper investigates the degree of total factor productivity convergence for the German electricity and gas firms …. We use different approaches to compute the productivity level and several old and new panel unit root tests from the … of total factor productivity, result confirmed by all categories of tests we use. Therefore, an innovation transfer is …

In the paper, productivity convergence is analyzed with a broad panel of industry sector data for the United States and … had a significant effect on German sectoral productivity growth in the sixties and seventies. Some part of the catching …-up is due to capital-deepening, but most of it is total factor productivity convergence, i.e. endogenous growth models …

of growth and allocation arises from the point of view of economic policy. -- regional production function ; productivity …

market integration ; deregulation ; total factor productivity ; Italy ; Germany. … directions since then: Italy privatized its publicly-owned banks while Germany has maintained a large share of state … activities have affected banks' productivity in the period 1994-2004, differentiating between technical change, efficiency change …