the use of e-commerce and productivity implications on micro firms in France using Propensity Score Matching (PSM) for the … year 2012. Data used in the analysis is based on community survey "ICT & e-commerce" for micro firms. The main objective of … using PSM is to assess productivity between, on the one hand, e-selling micro firms and, on the other hand, the non e …

Liberalization is widely recognized to drive productivity growth. Retail trade is often thought to substantially … contribute to the frequently debated productivity gap between Europe and the U.S. In Europe, entry regulations empower local … the period 1996-2002 to quantify the effect of entry regulations on productivity in retail. The results show that the …

a dynamic structural model to evaluate the role of local market entry regulations in the productivity of retail trade …. Our model is flexible with respect to how local market regulations influence store productivity and controls for demand in … results show that more liberal entry regulations increase future productivity and that the increase in productivity is larger …

use a dynamic model to measure the impact of large entrants on productivity, allowing for a controlled productivity …, we find that incumbents' productivity increase after large entry and that the magnitude of the increase declines with the … productivity of incumbents. Our findings highlight that large entrants play a crucial role in driving productivity growth. …

information and communication technology (ICT), not only in the ICT sector, but in all sectors. ICT can accelerate the development … of economies, which, in turn, impacts social economic life. That is why ICT can be a catalyst for the Sustainable …