might vary across regions depending on their productivity gap with the most productive region in their country. Our … hypothesis is that regional productivity growth is positively related to the productivity growth of the leading region within the … country and positively related to the productivity gap with the region that has the highest level of productivity in the …

explanation of the incomplete catching-up process within West Germany is of crucial interest. After identifying productivity as … the major growth driving force, this paper investigates the main causes of productivity growth on the state level between … 1950 and 1990. With the help of growth theories different determinants of productivity growth are identified. These are …

and trade relations in world economic systems. Regional dependence on the level of productivity, supply and demand of … telecommunications has increased worldwide. Our study analyzes the changes in total factor productivity (TFP) of telecommunications and …