investigating the actual productivity change and its components — pure efficiency change, scale efficiency change and technological … Malmquist Productivity Index (Zelenyuk in Eur J Oper Res 174:1076–1086, 2006) and the bootstrap techniques (Simar and Wilson in … respond to the financial crisis with productivity improvements and, in both cases, this improvement is driven primarily by a …

incentives are mostly concentrated in the medium range of the firm productivity distribution. These findings are robust to …

profitability and productivity that can outweigh the costs of the policy. This paper reviews the empirical evidence on the link … between environmental policy stringency and productivity growth, and the various channels through which such effects can take …

Productivity growth has slowed across most OECD economies since the mid-2000s. While important aspects of New Zealand …’s economic performance have improved over this period, productivity growth is still comparatively low. This continues a long …-run trend of poor productivity in New Zealand, which is the key reason why average incomes are still below the OECD average …

the productivity of innovation across the twenty seven Member States of the European Union (EU-27), with a particular … report and cover the EU-27 Member States, from 2006 to 2010. The Total Factor Productivity index (TFP index) was used as the … types of TFP indexes were computed: i) TFPt (time), which compares the productivity of innovation in each Member State with …

In this paper, we explore the link between firm productivity and exporting using three firm level datasets of 1323 … markets, and whether exporters achieve productivity improvements through learning by exporting effects. We then explore the … link between innovation (as a channel linking productivity to exporting) and exporting. The analysis has been conducted on …