...Chiara Castelli; Nicola Comincioli; Chiara Ferrante; Nicola Pontarollo Purpose The aim of this study is to investigate the contribution of tangible and intangible investments in driving labour productivity growth in the European Union over the period 2000–2017 and their role in the short...

...Francesco Aiello; Paola Cardamone; Lidia Mannarino; Valeria Pupo Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate whether and how inter-firm cooperation and firm age moderate the relationship between family ownership and productivity. Design/methodology/approach We first estimate the total...

...Jhon James Mora; Andres David Espada Castro Purpose This article analyzes the determinants of credit constraints and their effects on the productivity of micro-firms in Colombia. Design/methodology/approach An Endogenous Switching Regression Model (ESRM) is estimated to analyze credit...

... to evaluate banks as it is necessary to present to what extent they use their resources efficiently. The main purpose of the study is to analyze the efficiencies of Turkish banks by the two-stage data envelopment analysis (DEA) and Malmquist productivity index (MPI). Design/methodology/approach...

... a potential threat to these two factors. Besides, the poor performance of investments in recent years is behind the stagnation of productivity in Estonia. This study examines the dynamics of the effects of these factors on the rate of economic growth in Estonia and provides policy implications in line...

...Luis Cárdenas del Rey; Rafael Fernandez-Sanchez Purpose This paper studies one of the most paradoxical facts of the Spanish economic growth during the period 1982–2007: high growth of investment and aggregate demand accompanied by the stagnation of labor productivity, especially from 1994...

...Lisa Noonan; Eoin O'Leary; Justin Doran Purpose This paper analyses the impact of institutional proximity, cognitive proximity and geographical proximity (in the form of agglomeration economies) on the firm-level productivity of foreign-owned firms in Ireland. The analysis of agglomeration...

... that: not only the exporters are larger and more productive than non-exporters, but they also grow faster in size and productivity measures as well. Additionally, the authors find that the rise in the growth rate is a short-term phenomenon and it disappears in the second year; meaning that exportation does...

...Stefano Iandolo; Anna Maria Ferragina Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the joint effect of persistency in innovation and export on firms’ total factor productivity. In particular, the aim is to determine if exporting in international markets along subsequent periods, and being also...

...Shandre Mugan Thangavelu Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the impact of large inflow of foreign workers on the Singapore manufacturing productivity using a panel data at the disaggregated industry level from 1998 to 2008. The results indicate that foreign workers do make productive...

...Mariam Khawar Concentrates on identifying the mechanisms by which foreign investment affects productivity in recipient countries. Conducts a firm‐level study of manufacturing plants in Mexico and test for performance differences embodied in factor productivity between domestic and foreign (majority...

...Renuka Mahadevan Although an East Asian miracle, Singapore has been singled out for experiencing insignificant total factor productivity (TFP) growth, thereby reflecting limited potential for long‐term growth. Examines the validity of this statement for the services sector, which is an important...

...Evangelia Papapetrou Examines the causality issue, in a Granger‐temporal causal sense, between price level and productivity in a bivariate and multivariate context in Greece over the period 1962‐1997. The empirical analysis employs various time‐series techniques such as unit‐root testing, bivariate...

...Michela Vecchi Zvi   Griliches . The Relationship between Investment in R&D and Productivity. The Econometric Evidence . Chicago and London : The University of Chicago Press   1998 . © MCB UP Limited 2001 --> Econometrics Investment R&D Productivity...

...Eleanor Doyle; Eoin O’Leary New evidence is presented on the degree of aggregate and sectoral labour productivity convergence among 11 EU countries between 1970 and 1990. As with studies for other groups of countries, it is found that there is a greater degree of aggregate than sectoral convergence...

...Eleanor Doyle The secular transformation in Irish sectoral employment shares, which has been stimulated by the change in focus of both Irish industrial and trade policies, mirrors the significant changes that have occurred in international structures of production. Estimates the contribution...

...Catherine Kavanagh Academic research in the USA and more recently in the UK and Sweden, has highlighted public capital as a significant growth determinant. Public capital, it is argued, has a positive effect on private sector output, productivity and capital formation. However, controversy...