changes in France, Germany and Italy. … the productivity of the economy. Trends in social consumption/GDP, and in fiscal policy, reflected political regime …

, Germany and Italy … productivity of the economy. Trends in social consumption/GDP, and in fiscal policy, reflected political regime changes in France …

This paper compares the role innovation plays in productivity across the four European countries France, Germany, Spain … still rare. We apply a structural model that describes the link between R&D expenditure, innovation output and productivity … (CDM model). Our econometric results suggest that overall the systems driving innovation and productivity are remarkably …

in a region or sector, it is their productivity advantage that determines the positive effect on domestic firms in … measuring total factor productivity (TFP) of firms and to different empirical specifications …

The study aims at describing productivity growth in the manufacturing sector for a selected panel of five European … countries using firm-level data. The paper explores the empirical regularities of firm productivity distribution across … countries. In particular, we assess the degree of persistence of firm relative productivity and consider its effect on aggregate …

sample of 133 public universities, of which 73 public universities in Germany and 60 public Italian universities, observed …