cover essentially all firms in the Finnish business sector, we first document that labor productivity dispersion is very … market equilibrium and whether innovation subsidies can improve industry productivity by mitigating such a tax distortion. …

innovators from high-productivity firms. These findings suggest that innovation subsidies contribute to economic renewal and the …

International literature suggests that productivity growth of the global frontier firms – those in the best five … productivity of the Finnish frontier firms does not diverge from the others to such a degree as in the international comparisons …

employment, especially among young and small companies. Impacts on the productivity are, however, uncertain. Cooperation of … help firms to grow larger but do not improve their productivity. …

Belarus, Russia and Ukraine as well as in China. For each country, it provides a forecast relating to GDP growth, inflation … and China (the latter country has been included for the first time in our report), create every impression of having … integrated fully into the global economy and added to its dynamics. That notwithstanding, if we disregard China, the other …

) - continues to shed labour. This implies impressive gains in labour productivity and, given the general wage restraint, in unit … productivity and quality improvements this danger is not imminent in most NMS yet. Still the exchange rate developments should be …

, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Serbia and Montenegro, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, and China). A short analysis of …; quite an abrupt deterioration in industrial labour productivity; and real currency appreciation and a resulting strong rise …-nationalization and the lacklustre programme of the new government. China continues to register extremely rapid GDP growth, despite some …

. In China, GDP grew by nearly 10% driven by both external and domestic demand. A slight growth deceleration is expected …