Economic growth in the European Union has been low for more than a decade now. While some of the poor performance can be explained by the crisis, the sustained low growth is to a very large extent the consequence of sluggish productivity performance. Productivity is above all an indicator of a...

Cover -- Contents -- Abstract -- I. Introduction and Motivation -- II. Growth Patterns in NREs -- A. Defining "Resource-Led" Growth -- B. Muted Sectoral Dynamics -- C. Traditional Services Dominate -- III. Labor Productivity Growth -- IV. Export Transformation -- A. Composition and...

This paper considers the link between the local availability of services and a firm’s decision to become a multinational. This is a highly topical issue, given that many industrialised countries are increasingly becoming services economies and firms become increasingly more globalised. In an...

Drawing from confidential firm-level balance sheets for 17 European countries (13 Euro-Area), the paper documents the newly expanded database of cross-country comparable competitivenessrelated indicators built by the Competitiveness Research Network (CompNet). The new database provides...

The structure of the German economy changed drastically over time. The decline of the proportion of gross value added of the manufacturing sector at the expense of the services sector is often cited as an indicator for this structural change. However, this shift is not necessarily an indication...

Die vorliegende Arbeit befasst sich mit einer neuen Art von Services, den Technology-Derived Services (TDS). TDS basieren auf Produkten, die aufgrund von IT-basierten Funktionalitäten in der Lage sind, autonom zu operieren und somit dem Kunden direkten Nutzen stiften. Dabei ist während der...

Seit 2005 werden die Ergebnisse des ifo Konjunkturtests Dienstleistungen monatlich veröffentlicht. Dieser Sektor ist ein sehr heterogener Bereich, und eine differenzierte Betrachtung nach unterschiedlichen wirtschaftlichen Aktivitäten kann die Qualität der vom ifo Institut erhobenen Daten...