the rate of change in inputs. We find that the overall NHS productivity growth index increased by 10% over the whole …We assess the productivity growth of the English and Italian healthcare systems over the period from 2004 to 2011. The … principles, financing, organization, management, and size. We measure productivity growth as the rate of change in outputs over …

The aim of this paper is to provide a contribution to the debate on the effectiveness of cohesion policies in Italy. It … reduction in the regional divide in terms of GDP pro capita, but they have had no impact on the dynamics of labour productivity …

companies in the medium and long term. The methodology used consists of calculating different profitability and productivity … at significantly low productivity levels and in conditions of technical inefficiency, due to both the inability of the …

characteristics of Italian provinces, at the NUTS 3-digit, with a focus on the productivity distributions of incumbent firms. We find … higher productivity premium where already more productive firms are. Our findings are consistent with recent theories … predicting an endogenous sorting of heterogeneous firms over space. In provinces where average productivity is lower, firm …

In this paper a complete set of estimates of long-run production functions for 20 regions and 17 sectors in Italy is … previous studies by employing unique national elasticities introduce a serious bias in the productivity comparisons …

versus private ownership and the quality of institutions as determinants of productivity. While earlier literature has … lower productivity than under private ownership, here we focus on the role of institutions as an external governance … than their private counterparts (a result robust to different productivity measures), but we also discover two new facts …