market play for productivity and firm dynamics. It exploits a new firm-level database for ten OECD countries and industry …-level data for a broader set of countries, together with a set of indicators of regulation and institutional settings in product … and labour markets. Aggregate productivity patterns are largely the result of within-firm performance. But, the …

the case of Japan the gap in GDP per capita is essentially due to the lagging performance in labour productivity, the …

generate substantial productivity improvements across EU member economies. Over a period of 10 years, the predicted increase in … labour productivity resulting from a bold reform package is around 10% for the average EU country, and new member States …

new set of quantitative indicators of regulation, we show that the cross-country variation of regulatory settings has … increased in recent years, despite extensive liberalisation and privatisation in the OECD area. We then look at the regulation … multifactor productivity (MFP), which plays a crucial role in GDP growth and accounts for a significant share of its cross …

regulation. Policies should be refocused around the productivity goal in a number of areas, beginning with those covered in this … labour productivity, which in turn is related to economic geography as well as structural policy factors. The small size and … groundwork for creating this advantage and for a pick-up in productivity growth. But in recent years, New Zealand has lost ground …