Does the concept of General Purpose Technologies help explain periods of faster and slower productivity advance in …, Britain, France, Germany and Japan and proceeds to evaluate the hypothesis of a productivity bonus as postulated by many … there was no generalized productivity boost from electrical power diffusion as postulated by many existing GPT models. The …

productivity improvements stemming from workers moving out of agriculture. Starting in 1924 captures the civil war recovery and …

This study investigates the productivity differences and its sources across a set of banks during the last years of the … regional distribution. Employing DEA productivity analysis and the Malmquist index, we discover that these changes were … regional banking groups, like the Catalan, can be linked with its low productivity levels. In consequence, in the light of our …