other public policies can narrow regional gaps in income, well-being and access to services, productivity growth is key to …, this paper documents the performance of Swedish large regions (TL2) on the main productivity drivers identified by the … high regional productivity, namely rail and road connectivity, knowledge-intensive employment and research and education …

sectoral transformation, and labour productivity growth in the EU in several new dimensions. First, based on the latest data …, we document the size of the negative effect that structural change has exerted onto productivity growth over long time … structural change may have on future productivity growth. This model generates structural change through both price and income …

The present paper studies the relationship between R&D investment and firm productivity growth by explicitly accounting … for non-linearities in the R&D-productivity relationship and inter-sectoral firm heterogeneity. In order to address these …. Our results suggest that: (i) R&D investment increases firm productivity with an average elasticity of 0.15; (ii) the …

Productivity in Russia has fallen steadily over the past 15 years. This paper explores micro-level data to understand … the contribution of individual firms to aggregate productivity. Overall, firm-level data corroborate the decline in … aggregate productivity and a widening productivity gap against several European countries. They also show that the gap between …

Using a cross-country firm level panel dataset from 1995 to 2015, this paper revisits the finance–productivity nexus by … result, financial frictions are expected to be more binding for productivity growth in sectors where intangibles have become … level. We provide evidence that financial frictions act as a drag on productivity growth and especially so with respect to …

to achieving a truly single market limit productivity growth of regions, including the most advanced. Reducing regulatory … barriers and better innovation policies would boost productivity. Effective intergovernmental coordination bodies and a well …

This paper investigates the causal effect of public administration efficiency on firm-level productivity. To this … administration efficiency and firm productivity because of large and persistent spatial disparities in economic performance and local …’ productivity growth. Increasing local public administration efficiency from the 25th percentile to the 75th percentile would raise …

Slow productivity growth in advanced economies holds back income gains and therefore improvements in well …-being. Sluggish productivity gains in aggregate hide a growing gap between firms at the frontier, which display sustained productivity … growth, and the rest of firms whose productivity stagnates. The empirical analysis – based on firm-level data for the period …