primarily interested in the presence and magnitude of spillovers but imposes a rigid ad hoc structure on the channels these can … factor approach which accounts for R&D spillovers without imposing any arbitrary structure on their nature and channels. At …, pointing to the presence of knowledge spillovers. Further, our estimations suggest that when ignoring the presence of …

Despite rapid economic integration and massive help from the Federal Government East German productivity catching up … faded out in the nineties. This paper presents panel-data estimates of the productivity adjustment based on a production … sources of productivity growth. The estimates reveal that a large part of productivity growth in the early nineties is related …

This paper assesses the relationship between institutions, output, and productivity, when official output is corrected … output and total factor productivity, and its negative impact on the size of the underground economy. However, once output is … total ('corrected') factor productivity even becomes insignificant. Differences in corrected output must then be attributed …

This paper addresses the empirical relationship between the level of competition and the rate of productivity growth … level of competition for each sector that is defined by the mark-up that maximizes the growth rate of labor productivity …. The information technologies Sectors have the highest mark-ups for maximizing productivity growth. The persistence of …