on domestic productivity. The domestic R&D capital stock plays an active role in Western Europe while in the Eastern part … transition countries seem to gain more in terms of productivity from the international diffusion process than their Western …

Economic analysts have used trends in total factor productivity (TFP) to evaluate the effectiveness with which …

development as well as productivity and firm performance. Eventually, the survey does not only allow the identification of main …

manufacturing industries of France, Germany, UK and USA. We first disentangle the contribution to industry-level productivity growth … of within-firm productivity changes and between-firms reallocation of shares. The evidence corroborates that within … extent firm growth rates are shaped by relative productivity levels in deviation from industry average and by the over time …

productivity (TFP) growth in economics and management, yet little is known about its precision, especially when the capital stock …. -- Total factor productivity ; Solow esidual ; generalized differences ; measurement error ; Malmquist index …

productivity (TFP) growth in a sample of 30 European economies for the period 1994-2005. In most of Western Europe, we find a … market regulation may adversely affect TFP growth and may thus impair convergence. -- Total factor productivity growth …

This paper contributes to the productivity literature by using results from firm-level productivity studies to improve … forecasts of macro-level productivity growth. The paper employs current research methods on estimating firm-level productivity … to build times-series components that capture the joint dynamics of the firm-level productivity and size distributions …

This paper relates firm level input changes and productivity to aggregate growth of the Hungarian economy for the … the role of firm productivity in growth was not stable over time. It played important role in early transition and in the … input reallocation shows a decreasing trend in Hungary. -- Growth decomposition ; productivity ; reallocation ; firm level …