.6 percentage points in 2015 – large enough to improve the picture of GDP and productivity growth in advanced economies. However …, this would not overturn the conclusion that productivity growth has slowed substantially compared over the past decades. …

This report contains an empirical analysis of the productivity and sustainability performance of different types of … farms in thirteen countries. Farm productivity performance is measured through estimates of average productivity levels and … structure, innovation of operations, individual characteristics as well as farm location. Productivity performance by farm …

direct investment, imports of productivity-enhancing technology - are petering out, and are yet to be substituted. We propose … a new growth model centred around a shift towards more home-grown innovation, digitalisation, climate change mitigation …

With a newly constructed firm-level dataset combining various survey- and registry data from Statistics Estonia, this … paper sheds new light on the labour productivity premium from adopting digital technologies and boosting digital skill use …. The productivity premium is decomposed into a direct effect benefitting the firms actually increasing their digital …

artificial intelligence seem to offer a vast potential to boost productivity and living standards. However, aggregate … productivity growth has declined sharply across the OECD over the past decades. Estonia is no exception, though it is well placed … to gain from digital technology diffusion, with strong digital foundations, including advanced and secure physical and …

The preparations for the introduction of the euro in 1999 involved the need for a new set of statistics for the euro … statistics. The reliability of the first releases - i.e. their stability in the process of later revisions - is an important … published statistical data releases. The analysis is carried out separately for GDP growth and its expenditure components, for …

In this report we review the literature on the relationship between ICT and productivity. In Sect. 1 we discuss in … broad terms the theoretical relationship between ICT and productivity, while in Sect. 2 we present the growth accounting …, total factor productivity). Within the growth-accounting methodology, in Sect. 3, we discuss the U.S. - E.U. productivity …

In the euro area, there is mixed evidence that the GDP per capita of lower-income economies has been catching up with …-convergence trap" long before the euro years. We also provide stylised facts on: (i) the central role of total factor productivity in …