In a recent paper, Bloom et al. (2020) find evidence for a substantial decline in research productivity in the U …

productive compared to domestic firms, they may promote learning and catch-up of local firms. Such a channel of spillovers from … sector, it is their initial productivity advantage on the local firm to determine the positive effect on domestic … productivity growth. We test this hypothesis using firm level data for German and Italian companies during the 90's and we find …

The present paper examines the effect of entrepreneurship capital and spatial productivity spillovers on Greek regional … Blundell and Bond GMM estimator suggests that entrepreneurship, spatial productivity spillovers and R&D capital have a positive … labour productivity during Greek financial crisis. A spatial autoregressive (SAR) dynamic panel data model using the robust …

In the paper, productivity convergence is analyzed with a broad panel of industry sector data for the United States and … had a significant effect on German sectoral productivity growth in the sixties and seventies. Some part of the catching …-up is due to capital-deepening, but most of it is total factor productivity convergence, i.e. endogenous growth models …

consistent framework as regards national account institutional sectors. Second, after defining Total Factor Productivity (TFP) in …

The aim of this paper is to investigate the productivity impact of business visits, relative to traditional drivers of … productivity enhancement, namely capital formation and R&D. To carry out the analysis, we combine unique and novel data on business … results suggest that mobility through business visits is an effective mechanism to improve productivity. The estimated effect …