by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontier technique is used on a unique unbalanced longitudinal … firms. From a policy perspective, the results of this study suggest that - if the aim is to leverage firms' productivity … other hand, corporate R&D in the low-tech sector is found to have a minor effect in explaining productivity. Instead …

This paper investigates the causal effect of public administration efficiency on firm-level productivity. To this … administration efficiency and firm productivity because of large and persistent spatial disparities in economic performance and local …’ productivity growth. Increasing local public administration efficiency from the 25th percentile to the 75th percentile would raise …

Productivity growth has slowed across most OECD economies since the mid-2000s. While important aspects of New Zealand …’s economic performance have improved over this period, productivity growth is still comparatively low. This continues a long …-run trend of poor productivity in New Zealand, which is the key reason why average incomes are still below the OECD average …

direct investment, imports of productivity-enhancing technology - are petering out, and are yet to be substituted. We propose …

. Digital technologies offer opportunities to raise firms’ productivity and the population’s well-being. However, wide … productivity gaps between large firms and SMEs and between manufacturing and services weigh on economy-wide productivity, which is …