national firms which have never invested abroad. For a sample of Italian firms, it finds that investments improve growth of … total factor productivity and output. It also finds no significant effects on employment. These results support the view …

-commerce clearly has a positive impact on the business sector, doubts have been raised about its impact on the macroeconomic growth and …

. In fact, conspicuous flows of investment in this sector enabled the US firms to record high rates of productivity growth …There is ample evidence that investment in Information Technology (IT) boosted labour markets productivity in the USA … and to boost up the country's economic growth to very high rates. The US experience that took place during the second part …

exploit exogenous changes in US immigration quotas. Consistent with a model of sector reallocation, output growth in less … productivity. The ethnic transfer mechanism is especially strong in high-tech industries and among Chinese economies. The findings …

The labour productivity impact of innovation is investigated in this paper combining neo-Schumpeterian insights on the … productivity and export success in European manufacturing industries and firm size classes. The empirical estimates are based on …-sectional estimation methodologies able to account for unobserved industrial characteristics, show that productivity in Europe relies on …

industry productivity and social welfare. For this purpose we develop a reciprocal dumping model of international trade with … heterogeneous firms and endogenous R&D. We identify two effects of trade liberalization on productivity: a direct effect through … low (high) trade costs; (ii) increases expected industry productivity; and (iii) raises expected social welfare if trade …

The paper concentrates on the question whether the low level of productivity in East Germany can be explained by … younger cohorts. This impedes a fast convergence in productivity between East and West Germany. …

In this paper we investigate the productivity growth – inflation nexus in fifteen European countries over the period … for the role of the EMU and the Treaty of Maastricht in catching up, real convergence, and the future growth prospects of …