innovators from high-productivity firms. These findings suggest that innovation subsidies contribute to economic renewal and the …

German establishments. We include the analysis of firms' efficiency and we model productivity and efficiency simultaneously … nonresponse bias -, the results on the collective bargaining effects on productivity and efficiency change significantly. Finally …

output dynamics in response to positive productivity shocks? Can we identify heterogeneous productivity shocks and the …

with good prospects for innovation. Aggregate productivity growth requires that firms with the best prospects for …

some moderate slowdown in Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Slovenia and Slovakia. A definite growth slowdown was only … and institutional adaptations, as well as ongoing gains in labour productivity remain important for maintaining export …

membership are heterogeneous. Three of them, Bulgaria, Croatia and Romania, have acquired candidate status; their economies are …

-efficiency, labour productivity and investment in new machinery and equipment as well as characteristics of firms and their environment … such as location, experience, technological intensity of their industries and the intensity of competition. To control for … competitiveness of firms in transition economies is enhanced with improvements in their cost efficiency, productivity of labour …

that raise productivity and growth. This report offers a map and a competitiveness compass for the EU to find a new path …