made reluctance for companies. I found out empirical relations between IT investment and corporate productivity. Analyses … being produced by IT investment. Based on these results, I showed how productivity improvement supported by IT investment …Japanese IT investment has stagnated. Though some Japanese companies are investing in IT, this does not represent …

We use firm-level data for 15 countries and 13 manufacturing sectors to estimate firm-level productivity parameters and … to establish representative country-sector-specific empirical productivity distributions. We use these distributions … of technology in shaping international trade flows. We find that, on average, absolute advantage measured as productivity …

-up countries comes from the total factor productivity growth (TFP), which motivates us to take a deeper look on the factors behind … TFP developments. The objective of this paper is to shed light on the characteristics behind the productivity development … in the new EU member countries. It may be generalised that the productivity development of a country, industry or firm is …

lending markets to charge higher rates on their SME customers. This crowded out firm investment. Perversely, fiscal … investment by around 30-40 bio euros per year (or 1 percent of GDP). Our findings identify a novel channel through which low …

Since the mid-1980s, most countries, especially the developing, have become more open to foreign direct investment (FDI …) aiming to benefit from its fiscal development contributions, as countries with a high level of investment systematically … achieve higher levels of development. Accordingly, bilateral investment treaties (BITs) guarantee certain standards of …