This paper investigates the role of information and communication technology (ICT) as a driver of improved productivity performance of Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries and Russia (CEER) relative to the EU-15 and the U.S. during the 1990s. The paper investigates how, and to what...

The project 'EU Integration and the Prospects for Catch-Up Development in CEECs - The Determinants of the Productivity Gap' was concerned with establishing knowledge about determinants of lower levels of productivity in the new member states of Central East Europe (CEE). This knowledge pertains...

This paper explores the quantitative plausibility of three candidate explanations for the European productivity slowdown with respect to the US. The empirical plausibility of the common wisdom on the topic (the IT usageʺ hypothesis) is found to crucially depend on how IT-using industries are...

This paper explores the quantitative plausibility of three candidate explanations for the European productivity slowdown with respect to the US. The empirical plausibility of the common wisdom on the topic (the IT usage hypothesis) is found to crucially depend on how IT-using industries are...