second part of our analysis, we estimate the impacts of our new measures on Total Factor Productivity (TFP) in the framework …

improve productivity downstream. We confirm such prediction by estimating a model of multifactor productivity growth in which … to the productivity frontier. …

through which upstream sector anticompetitive regulations may impact productivity growth: business investments in R&D and in …, management and organization. For this, we specify an extended production function relating productivity explicitly to R&D and ICT … productivity can be sizeable, and they provide evidence that a good part of the total impact, though not a predominant one, goes …

Major European countries, unlike the United States, did not experience an acceleration in labour productivity growth in … 1980-2000 period. They find that total factor productivity growth picked up considerably in the second half of the 1990s … relative to the first half, but that labour productivity growth actually decelerated. This latter development was related to …

This analysis proposes new measures of rent creation and rent sharing and assesses their impact on productivity on … substantial negative impact on total factor productivity …