"good” characteristics, namely assets and uses of digital technologies that are positively correlated with productivity … the top productivity and sales deciles having good characteristics is substantial, and one-third of all firms in the high … formal financing. That over half of formal firms in the top cluster as well as in the top decile of productivity and sales …

productivity. We embed the recently released data on patents and publications related to AI into an augmented panel model of … productivity growth, estimated for OECD countries, and compared to a non-OECD sample. Our instrumental variables' estimates …, accounting for AI endogeneity, provide evidence in favour of the modern (AI) productivity paradox. We show that the development …

New Zealand has experienced poor productivity performance over the last two decades. Factors often cited as reasons …, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands and Sweden based on average productivity levels, as well as benchmarking laggard, median and … productivity convergence, and the impact of the productivity frontier on non-frontier firm performance. Additionally, both labour …

a critical role in explaining regional disparities in productivity. In fact, we show that over 50% of the East …-West productivity gap is associated with a less efficient labor allocation in former East Germany. Yet, we also demonstrate that the … suggest that regional productivity differences could be substantially narrowed by a more efficient labor allocation among …