Why do cities differ so much in productivity? Using a split-sample IV strategy, we document that up to three quarters … of the large measured dispersion in productivity across US cities is spurious and reflects the "luck of the draw" of … their productivity is only imperfectly correlated with that of older plants, which dominate measured productivity levels …

We compute new estimates for Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth in the United States and in five European countries … utilization. These novelties have a major impact, especially in Europe, where our estimated TFP growth series are less volatile …-level and aggregate TFP series, as well as the first estimates of utilization-adjusted quarterly TFP growth in Europe …

The New Economy in Europe and the US poses many unexplored issues. The authors present innovative theoretical and … empirical analysis on Internet dynamics, productivity growth and organizational changes in selected OECD countries. New …

received their degree in the years 2000 to 2005 in Europe or the USA. Research productivity is evaluated alternatively as the … number of publications, results suggest a higher productivity by graduates from European universities than from USA … questions: Are there major productivity differences between graduates from American and European institutions? If so, how …

There is ample evidence that investment in Information Technology (IT) boosted labour markets productivity in the USA …. In fact, conspicuous flows of investment in this sector enabled the US firms to record high rates of productivity growth … of the 1990s was not echoed in Europe owing to the fact that European firms have not adopted forward-looking investment …