productivity improvements not within sectors but within value chains. It allows judging in a better way to what extent more or … result is that more than half of the productivity gains related to ICT capital deepening for manufactured goods are … sectoral growth in total factor productivity (TFP) in the ICT sector contributes only moderately to TFP growth in non-ICT value …

We propose a measure of corporate investment plans, namely, the expected investment growth (EIG). We document a robust … finding that firms with high EIG have larger future investment growth and earn significantly higher returns than firms with …

Productivity. We endogenize the accrual of the R&D stocks by estimating an R&D investment function. We find that the marginal …

growing positive effects upon the productivity. The econometric estimation applies the GMM method. According to the empirical …This paper analyses the relationship between labour productivity growth and R&D investments of Spanish manufacturing … bigger continuity in technological investment are considered (most-innovative firms). In the full sample and in the sub …