on productivity growth in Europe which look into the relation between ICT spending and labour productivity growth …. Finally, the paper analyses determinants of total factor productivity growth which are of special importance in Europe. …

The paper studies the patent productivity of scientists over their life cycle. The incentives for patenting and for … publishing are compared and how they shape life cycle productivity. In most empirical studies, publication productivity decreases … productivity over the life time. In the empirical part the patents of nearly 1000 German patent active professors are analyzed. The …

productivity from the viewpoint of endogenous growth theory. We then turn to the comparative analysis of FDI inflow to Russia and …

with a monopolistic competition framework a la Dixit-Stiglitz considering heterogeneous firms with different productivity … run equilibrium only those firms with survive in the market which have a sufficiently high productivity level or can … compensate their lower productivity level by wage cost advantages. We show that the increase of productivity might be explained …

. In the model, firms are heterogeneous in productivity. Selection effect and agglomeration economies caused by … agglomeration increase firms' productivity and decreases industrial entry costs, and factor prices are increased because of … shows that the compositive effect is that the influences of productivity on the latter increase with agglomeration level …

The present paper analyses whether and how the affiliation of a firm to a business group affects its productivity … Bureau van Dijk's MARKUS database and from the Cost Structure Panel we assess differences in productivity (1) between … groups, region, sector and size of firms, it is shown that group members have a productivity premium between 6 and 28 …

might vary across regions depending on their productivity gap with the most productive region in their country. Our … hypothesis is that regional productivity growth is positively related to the productivity growth of the leading region within the … country and positively related to the productivity gap with the region that has the highest level of productivity in the …

The aim of our analysis is the evaluation of the total and sectoral convergence of labour productivity between 182 … and low productivity, respectively 'core' and 'periphery'. Our results show significant sígma-convergence in aggregate … labour productivity, market and non-market services in the first years and a slightly divergence in the second period. Sigma …

This paper estimates the contribution of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to the Total Factor Productivity (TFP) of … Bulgaria for the period 2004-2013. Since TFP captures the joint efficiency of capital and labor, it is likely to be influenced …