productivity. Under certain conditions this will lead to a productivity increase of the whole ensemble. The present day view that … called exploitation. The outcome depends on the relation between fix cost, variable cost, productivity and affinity. Brute … in exploitation. In case the transfer of substrates leads to increased productivity parts of the productivity might be …

competitiveness, specifically with a stronger emphasis on productivity performance, the paper also introduces a more elaborate … framework that takes into account the interactions between country-specific factors and firm-level productivity. It thus makes …

Productivity growth has declined since the late 1990s, slowing the catching-up process. Structural reforms to …

National framework conditions mediate the effect of technological capabilities of firms on their productivity. Although … institutional conditions influence total factor productivity of firms. Furthermore, we find that the effects of the national …, formal training of workers and access to technology through foreign ownership make more difference for productivity of firms …

The Productivity Commission released a Staff Working Paper ‘Can Australia Match US Productivity Performance?’ (by Ben … level of productivity. While other countries have caught up with — and even surpassed — US productivity, Australia’s catch …-up has been comparatively modest and patchy. International comparisons of productivity are useful, but also have hazards …

slacks-based efficiency measures of Tone (2001, 2002) to analyse productivity changes for Indonesian banks over the period … impact on productivity growth. The first part of the Malmquist analysis showed that average productivity changes for the …, state-owned and foreign banks, as well as Islamic banks, exhibited volatile productivity movements, mainly caused by shifts …