undervaluations or overvaluations of the lira/euro have on Italy's growth? We address these questions by presenting, first, three main … their determinants and draw the implications for Italy's economic growth. …What is the relationship between real exchange rate misalignments and economic growth? And what effect, if any, did …

on productivity growth, we estimate that Finland could achieve an annual growth rate of about 2 per cent in the coming 5 … the growth prospects in the coming 5 years. The weakness of Finland’s performance relative to comparative EU …-countries since 2009 can largely be explained by the collapse of Nokia’s production and the deterioration of cost competitiveness. The …

This paper analyses some of the factors behind the diverging productivity performances of the US and the EU over the … by two features the disappearance of the process of productivity catching-up of Europe vis-à-vis the US which had lasted … for most of the post-war period and the reversal from productivity slowdown to productivity acceleration in the US in the …

export growth and success among exporting companies. Successful exporters tend to be larger, with higher productivity growth …-exporting counterparts. They pay higher average wages, consistent with the notion that they have higher labour productivity or utilise more … skilled labour on average. For a typical company, export activity has been stable over the past five years, with zero growth …

This paper analyses some of the factors behind the diverging productivity performances of the US and the EU over the … by two features the disappearance of the process of productivity catching-up of Europe vis-à-vis the US which had lasted … for most of the post-war period and the reversal from productivity slowdown to productivity acceleration in the US in the …

, which has provided a significant boost to growth, productivity, competitiveness, profits and (more controversially …