-side channel: capital, labor, and productivity, with the last estimated using the stochastic frontier approach. By controlling for …

upstream sectors and employment protection legislation and that of macroeconomic factors on the productivity growth of OECD … regions. In particular we explore how this effect varies with the productivity gap of regions with their country’s frontier … structural policies on regional productivity growth controlling for region-specific determinants of growth. We estimate our model …

In order to promote productivity, and thus boost living standards in the long run, public policies need to focus on … institutional forms evaluated against these criteria. While the contribution of most organisations to ‘pro-productivity’ policies is …

might vary across regions depending on their productivity gap with the most productive region in their country. Our … hypothesis is that regional productivity growth is positively related to the productivity growth of the leading region within the … country and positively related to the productivity gap with the region that has the highest level of productivity in the …