We use an original dataset of about 1,400 manufacturing French firms that informs us about their use of telework in 2019. We estimate significant and sizeable positive differences in terms of Total Factor Productivity between firms that teleworked and others. Furthermore, compared to others,...

Chapter 1 provides an overview and assessment of the price competitiveness and export performance of the euro area and the larger euro area countries, as well as an evaluation of how standard equations have been able to explain actual export developments. Chapter 2 carries out a constant market...

We use firm-level data for France and Italy to explore the impact of service regulation reform implemented in the two countries on the mark-up and eventually on the performance of firms between the second half of the 1990s and 2007. In line with some previous studies, we find that the relation...