How can a country improve the productivity growth in its business sector and reach its growth potential? Sweden during …

How can a country improve the productivity growth in its business sector and reach its growth potential? Sweden during …

In this paper, we argue that fundamental reforms of the Swedish business sector can explain the remarkable productivity … firms substantially contributed to productivity and employment growth during this period, which suggests that the …

productivity of European network firms. Exploiting the variation in the timing and degree of liberalization efforts across … countries and industries, we find that liberalization increased firm-level productivity but had no reallocation impact. Based on … our estimates, the average firm-level productivity gain from liberalization amounts to 38 percent of the average total …

Measures of institutional quality are strong predictors of cross-country differences in income and productivity. The … efficient allocation of production factors across firms. In this study, we measure the effect of bureaucracy, labor regulations …

of product market regulation on mark-ups, firm dynamics, investment, employment, innovation productivity, and output … country data to study the effect of product market regulation and reform on a country's macroeconomic performance. After a …

inter-related sources of labour productivity weakness: the survival of “zombie” firms (firms that would typically exit in a … misallocation and the increasing survival of low productivity firms have contributed to the productivity slowdown. …

at the global technological frontier and a catch up term. We assume that regulation can affect productivity growth both … important than border regulations in this context. -- total factor productivity ; firm-level data ; product market regulation …. These allow accounting for both the direct effects of sectoral regulation on within-sector performance and the indirect …

at the global technological frontier and a catch up term. We assume that regulation can affect productivity growth both …. These allow accounting for both the direct effects of sectoral regulation on within-sector performance and the indirect … effects of sectoral regulation on firms in other sectors through intersectoral input-output linkages. Our econometric …

. More competition-friendly regulations, as measured by the OECDs' Product Market Regulation (PMR) indicator improve economic … businesses boost the capital stock and the employment rate. No robust link between labour market regulation and MFP and capital … deepening could be established. But looser labour market regulation is found to go hand in hand with higher employment rates …