This background paper describes the methodology used for the ECIPE Occasional Paper called "The Costs of Data Localisation: A Friendly Fire on Economic Recovery" in which the costs of data services regulation are assessed. This paper provides further explanation on how the costs of data...

There is a global trend toward more production, use, and sale of services by manufacturing firms. This phenomenon is known as the servicification of manufacturing. Services inputs as well as services activities within manufacturing firms account for over half of the value of manufacturing...

This background paper describes the methodology used for the ECIPE Occasional Paper called "The Costs of Data Localisation: A Friendly Fire on Economic Recovery" in which the costs of data services regulation are assessed. This paper provides further explanation on how the costs of data...

The impact of FDI on total factor productivity in Hungary during the 1990s' is assessed with a large enterprise panel. Foreign equity is associated with higher productivity levels and has a substantial, positive spillover effect on aggregate TFP growth. However, this benefit is significant only...

This paper analyses in what extent innovation contributes to the productivity premium of exporters. We start by performing non parametric tests on TFP distributions on different groups of firms characterized by their export and innovation behavior. We show that the TFP distributions of exporters...