Castellani, Davide; Piva, Mariacristina; Schubert, Torben; … - 2016
/EU productivity gap. We find robust evidence that US firms have a higher capacity to translate R&D into productivity gains (especially … in the high-tech industries), and this contributes to explaining the higher productivity of US firms. Conversely, EU … firms are more likely to achieve productivity gains through capital-embodied technological change at least in medium and low …
