the performance of operators through a study of their financial indicators and a non-parametric efficiency analysis. The …

-competitive regulation see a better economic performance of manufacturing industries using less-regulated services more intensively. Our …We study the effects of anti-competitive service regulation by examining whether OECD countries with less anti … results indicate that lower service regulation translates into faster value added, productivity, and export growth of …

We introduce a novel methodology to measure the relative TFP of the tradeable sector across countries, based on the … relationship between trade and TFP in the model of Eaton and Kortum (2002). The logic of our approach is to measure TFP not from … estimate the TFP of each country's manufacturing sector from 1985 to 2002. Our measures are easy to compute and, with respect …

We analyze the foundations of the relationship between trade and total factor productivity (TFP) in the Ricardian model …. Under general assumptions about the autarky distributions of industry productivities, trade openness raises TFP. This is due … production and trade data. In a sample of 41 countries, we find that Ricardian selection raised manufacturing TFP by 11% above …

This paper presents the new yearly series of the value-added of services for Italy, from 1861 to 1951, at current … strongly, which may lead to a more favourable evaluation of the contribution of services to the industrialization of the … heavy underestimation of services found in the early series for 1951. …

of each type of deal. Mergers seek to improve income from services, but the increase is offset by higher staff costs …

's performance is then set in an international context: a comparison of sectoral labour productivity growth rates and levels within a …

We examine the growth performance of six emerging economies (Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Russia and Turkey) in the …