Recent work on the relationship of productivity growth to expenditures on R&D is discussed with special reference to … alluded to above and evidence for the continued importance of the R&D process for the growth of productivity. …

This paper analyses the impact of transport infrastructures on the economic growth of both regions and sectors … regression on total factor productivity (TFP) indices, the second uses econometric estimates of the production function. Our …

We develop a framework for analyzing “medium-run” departures from balanced growth, and apply it to the economies of … identify a rising mark-up, which we ascribe to the rise of Services. The balanced growth path emerges as a special (and …

productivity growth has been one of the fastest during the past twenty years. In private services, the results concerning the level … international comparison, the Finnish communication and finance sectors do the best. In many service sectors, productivity growth in …Private services account for over a half of GDP in developed industrialised countries. We analyse how productivity in …

This study analyses how R&D expenditure impacts the productivity of companies. We analyse the productivity impact of R … short run (in 1-2 years) we find no statistically significant productivity impact of R&D. However, R&D does have an … almost 5 years is needed to capture the productivity impact of R&D. …

average growth rate of labor productivity by 0.48 percentage points in 19952000 and 0.06 percentage points in 20002005 … traditionally thought. Comparing our new results with SNA93-type growth decompositions we found that our revision increased the …

investigate the relationship between exports and productivity. Our overall results are in line with the big picture that is by now … controlled for, and these exporter productivity premia tend to increase with the share of exports in total sales; there is strong … government report higher productivity premia. However, the level of development per se does not appear to be an explanation for …

, and exhibit slower productivity growth. …