factor productivity in a large sample of Italian firms. By splitting the full sample on the basis of the ex-ante likelihood … shocks, provided they affect all firms randomly. Both market power and total factor productivity are estimated by applying …" firms a positive transitory shock to productivity growth rates is observed immediately after the announcement of the reform …

Measuring the dispersion of productivity or efficiency across firms in a market or industry is rife with methodological …

overly focused on research and development (R&D) and neglect sources of productivity growth, such as management practices …

Business innovation is an important driver of productivity growth. In this paper, I assess the importance of R&D and … the CDM model that treats ICT together with R&D as the main inputs into innovation and productivity, and test it on a … important than R&D for innovation, but more important for productivity. These results support the proposition that ICT is an …

total factor and investment-specific productivity measures. Investment-specific productivity measures are reflected by the …

by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontier technique is used on a unique unbalanced longitudinal … firms. From a policy perspective, the results of this study suggest that – if the aim is to leverage firms’ productivity … other hand, corporate R&D in the low-tech sector is found to have a minor effect in explaining productivity. Instead …

productivity. We examine these claims. Non-parametric plots and regressions show a robust positive association between the … manufacturing sector and Business R&D expenditures (BERD), while the relationship between manufacturing and exports or productivity …

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 …

presence (measured by turnover) increases the Total Factor Productivity of domestic firms by 0.42 percentage points. Thus, the …