In this paper we analyze the performance of cities under the angle of the productivity by developing a comparative analysis based on the benchmarking and the best observed practices. We consider in this paper ninety seven French cities. The first objective is to succeed in revealing the best...

A rather simple but crucial question in economics and management is why one firm makes more profit than another. However the answer remains unclear because of the large range of factors that might explain differential profit. In this paper we propose a decomposition of the profit differential...