productivity growth of smaller firms, nonfrontier businesses, and of firms in smaller economies and in post-2004 EU member … important in translating the changing structure of GVCs into faster productivity growth of these non-frontier firms. …-country firm-level data from ORBIS, the paper finds that changing position within GVCs can play a role in the catch up of firms …

, industry-level innovation and dynamism) productivity drivers and demonstrates how the underlying spatial dynamics behind the …

distanced regions. FDI tends to be associated with employment decline in manufacturing firms, but some growth in small firms. …That global networks provide positive externalities to participating firms is a well‑documented fact. Less is known … about how the performance of non-participating firms, especially those that are small or medium-sized, changes with exposure …

growth and low productivity. Major structural measures have been legislated to improve competition, education, energy, the … implemented, these reforms could increase annual trend per capita GDP growth by as much as one percentage point over the next ten … OECD best practices could increase potential growth by another percentage point annually. …

The Internet has become an integral part of the everyday life of households, firms and governments. Its proper … functioning over the long run is therefore crucial for economic growth and people’s wellbeing more generally. The success of the …