The article discusses the economic growth models in post-Communist countries of European Union and Eastern Partnership … the unfortunate fact that the national innovation systems in these countries are weakly developed. Economic growth types … importance in making a quantitative assessment of the differences between the economic growth indicators. The economic growth …

convergence methodology developed by Phillips and Sul (2007) is employed in a production function growth accounting approach and … data from the Total Economy Database and the Total Economy Growth Accounting Database. The empirical findings suggest that … the EU countries form two distinct convergent clubs exhibiting considerable heterogeneity in the underlying growth factors …

Since the information and communications technology revolution, productivity growth in Southern European countries has … been substantially lower than in developed European countries. I document that Spanish firms have lower productivity growth …, lower intangible capital growth, and lower leverage than German firms. The disparity is larger among smaller firms. I build …