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This paper examines the links between innovation and productivity in service enterprises. For this purpose, we use … structural model. Our results indicate that innovation in service enterprises is linked to higher productivity. In all three … countries analysed, among the innovation types that we consider, the strongest link between innovation and productivity was …
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This report contains an empirical analysis of the productivity and sustainability performance of different types of … farms in thirteen countries. Farm productivity performance is measured through estimates of average productivity levels and … structure, innovation of operations, individual characteristics as well as farm location. Productivity performance by farm …
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Growth and business cycles have a long tradition of being studied separately. However, events such as the Great Recession raise concerns that severe downturns may have detrimental implications for growth. If so, what policies may help alleviate such long-lasting effects of large recessions? To...
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domestic firms, even when differences in size, R&D and productivity are controlled for. We propose a demand-driven theoretical …
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central hubs and peripheral countries and sectors, and examine how these changes impact firm productivity. Using cross … productivity growth of smaller firms, nonfrontier businesses, and of firms in smaller economies and in post-2004 EU member … (centrality weighted) average productivity of buyers matters for the productivity of firms in our data overall, however this is …
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The paper investigates how top R&D investors differ in the production impact of their inputs and in their rate of technical change. We use the EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard and perform a quantile estimation of an augmented Cobb-Douglass production function for a panel of more than...
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The present paper studies the relationship between R&D investment and firm productivity growth by explicitly accounting … for non-linearities in the R&D-productivity relationship and inter-sectoral firm heterogeneity. In order to address these …. Our results suggest that: (i) R&D investment increases firm productivity with an average elasticity of 0.15; (ii) the …
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Structural transformation towards a more knowledge-based economy will strengthen Spain’s medium-term growth prospects. To deal with long standing impediments to higher growth the government has a substantial structural reform programme touching on education, the labour market and the business...
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to achieving a truly single market limit productivity growth of regions, including the most advanced. Reducing regulatory … barriers and better innovation policies would boost productivity. Effective intergovernmental coordination bodies and a well …
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realized product, process, organisational or marketing-related innovation; fourth, productivity changes as a result of … productivity and sustainability in the agricultural sector. …
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