of long-term care beds per capita and COVID-19 mortality rates. This finding provides support for the claim that long …

The aim of this work is to investigate the drivers of productivity evolution in the European life insurance industry in … develop a generalized Malmquist efficiency decomposition to gauge the relative importance of two sources of productivity … best-in-class insurers. We find that productivity increased on an annual basis by 6.71 per cent; the increase has been …

is that - by raising the incentives of households to invest in physical capital and in R&D - decreasing mortality … positively impacts upon technological progress and thereby also on productivity growth. The empirical results clearly confirm the … detrimental to economic prosperity, at least as far as technological progress and productivity growth are concerned. …