productivity in the long run. With regard to financial openness, we show that in the aftermath of the financial crisis, Switzerland …This paper analyzes the connection between openness and economic performance in Switzerland. Considering different …

und das Wirtschaftswachstum der Schweiz in der langen Frist beeinflusst. Weiter wird aufgezeigt, wie die Folgen einer … labor productivity within firms? Do exchange rate movements have an impact on aspects of business demography such as …

The fraction of R&D active firms decreased in Switzerland but increased in the Netherlands from 2000-2016. This paper … examines reasons for this divergence and its impact on productivity growth. Our micro-data reveal R&D concentration among high-productivity … firms in Switzerland. Innovation support sustains firms' R&D activities in both countries. Our structural growth model …

This study presents patterns of productivity change in a large set of 266 public higher education institutions (HEIs … confidence intervals for Malmquist indices of HEI productivity and their components. Consequently, we are able to assess … statistical significance of the changes in HEIs’ productivity, efficiency and technology. Our results suggest that when we treat …

It is well known that firms productivity is influenced by information spillovers generated either by other firms … tourist flows on regional total factor productivity, within a spatial dynamic model, controlling also for other intangible … European regions belonging to the EU15 member countries, plus Switzerland and Norway. The econometric results show the positive …

average labour productivity growth over an extended period of time. This finding is puzzling for a number of reasons. First, a … long-run decline in productivity among market-oriented industries would imply an increasingly inefficient allocation of …. One would therefore expect that technological progress should be visible in terms of positive labour productivity growth …