most studies focus on single countries and only some use a small panel of countries, we use the two largest databases … measures are instrumented based on constructed trade shares and trade costs fitted from a gravity panel model of bilateral … in comparison to the Gennaioli et al. data. This raises our confidence that using the Lessmann data in a panel approach …

This paper attempts to analyze the impact of knowledge and knowledge spillovers on regional total factor productivity …

spouses in Nicaragua. Using a three-year balanced panel dataset, we refine the approach introduced by Jacoby (1993) and … Kyriazidou (1997) to panel data which mitigates biases not only from some key individual and farm time-invariant characteristics … their spouses play a major role in the supply of labor to off-farm activities. When the marginal productivity of …

the important structure of the age-productivity relation of Human Capital. The study is fundamentally based on the theory … of Fingleton's model which analyses the spatial process of productivity growth on the on the foundations of the theory of …This paper is an attempt to explain variations across EU regions in productivity growth and takes into consideration …

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 …