This paper investigates cross-country productivity convergence at a sectoral level using multivariate unit-root tests. Our empirical analysis counts with three distinctive features. First, it allows the coefficients in the panel specification to vary across countries. Second, it accounts for the...

The aim of this paper is to review and summarise the results of selected empirical studies on performance gaps between multinational enterprises and their domestic counterparts.

The main purpose of this book is to enhance the understanding of differences in productivity performance between countries and sectors and to improve our insight in the drivers of productivity levels and its growth. Due to demographics the speed-up of productivity growth will be of increasing...

Abstract: Die Arbeit zeigt auf Grundlage einer ökonomischen Analyse, dass es für das volkswirtschaftliche Effizienzziel vorteilhaft und damit regulatorisch geboten ist, einen diskriminierungsfreien Teilleistungszugang für Dritte im Briefbereich zu realisieren, und auf welchen Stufen dieser...

1. Mapping the European higher education landscape : new insights from the EUMIDA Project / Andreas Niederl ... [et al.] -- 2. Is there a European university model? : new evidence on national path dependence and structural convergence / Torben Schubert ... [et al.] -- 3. Public and private...