the productivity of IT became known as the 'productivity paradox'. As Robert Solow, the Nobel laureate economist stated … "we see computers everywhere except in the productivity statistics". An important stream of research conducted all over … understand the impact of Information Technology adoption on the productivity of those firms. Using data from two surveys …

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 …

, and a quick response to clients' dynamic requirements as well as productivity that can ensure its survival. Production has … productivity of the manufacturing process. For the purpose of this research, the methodology of collecting, analyzing, and … reduction of non-value adding activities and the improvement of the overall productivity of the production process. In addition …

productivity of the investment goods constructing hedonic prices indices. This school is represented among others by Hulten (1992 …The productivity generated by capital goods is not uniform along the time. When there exist conventional physical … capital goods the productivity obtained is minor that the one generated by quality capital goods. To obtain a correct measure …

This paper studies the effects of investment tax credits on firms’ input choices by exploitinga sudden shift in the tax … significant increase in both investment and employment, with implied elasticities with respect to capital costs of 2.8 and 1 … evidence that the average firm adjusts its skill mix or occupational structure, firms in industries with higher investment …

This paper investigates the impact of technical progress on the relationship between competition an investment. Using a … find that technical progress, which increases the impact of investment on cost reduction, decreases the level of … competition that maximizes investment of the industry. This feature holds also for consumer surplus and Welfare. In the model …