through weaker growth of investment, employment, and productivity …

This paper explores economy- and regional-level determinants of the productivity potential of new entrepreneurial firms … heterogeneous group in terms of their productivity potential and that this potential is shaped by the economy's national system of … productivity potential of the economy's population of new entrepreneurial firms through their effect on who chooses to become an …

lower total factor productivity growth is the main mechanism through which population aging harms economic growth. Labor …

model, we estimate the probability of a supplier-buyer relationship and how this affects the productivity of the buyer. We … find that productivity gains from outsourcing of services activities may be substantial. Reducing local trade costs might … lead to significant productivity gains. Reductions of variable trade costs by 10 or 50% lead respectively to average …