The study analyses the relationships between capital dynamics, productivity, global value chains and foreign direct … capital for productivity and GVC integration. We examine the extent of underinvestment in ICT in the EU relative to other …

during the crisis in 2008 and 2009, ICT-intensive firms were hit less hard with respect to their productivity. This holds in … innovations during that period which could explain their better productivity performance compared to non-ICT intensive firms. …

productivity improvements not within sectors but within value chains. It allows judging in a better way to what extent more or … result is that more than half of the productivity gains related to ICT capital deepening for manufactured goods are … sectoral growth in total factor productivity (TFP) in the ICT sector contributes only moderately to TFP growth in non-ICT value …

We study the relationship between ICT, total factor productivity and export at the firm level in Belgium, France and … productivity improvements. We allow for endogeneity, unobserved heterogeneity, dynamic feedback, initial conditions and …