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 …

Knowledge-Based Capital (KBC), despite having a positive effect on productivity at the micro level, is a driver of the weak …Understanding the causes of the slowdown in aggregate productivity growth is key to maintaining the competitiveness of … productivity performance at the aggregate level, by accentuating divergence between a group of "frontier" firms and the rest of the …

complexity. For this, I suggest conceiving of moral norms and values as a particular kind of knowledge. The paper elaborates this … several aspects of moral knowledge, as well as problems of researching it. I also relate to anthropology of knowledge in order … to conceive of moral knowledge in a more systematic manner. For the operationalisation part, I will exemplify some …

/EU productivity gap. We find robust evidence that US firms have a higher capacity to translate R&D into productivity gains (especially … in the high-tech industries), and this contributes to explaining the higher productivity of US firms. Conversely, EU … firms are more likely to achieve productivity gains through capital-embodied technological change at least in medium and low …