This paper presents empirical evidence on the role that policy and institutional settings in
both product and labour market play for productivity and firm dynamics. It exploits a new firm …

This study analyses the cause of the slowdown in Japan's TFP growth during the 1990s.
Many preceding studies, examining the issue at the macro-or industry-level, have found that …

This chapter provides a step in that direction by proposing a framework of business
demography indicators that can be applied across all OECD and large non OECD …

This study analyses the dynamics of productivity growth at the micro level in Finnish
manufacturing industries. It is shown that productivity-enhancing restructuring (so-called …

Product market reforms are microeconomic structural reforms that aim to improve the
functioning of product markets by increasing competition amongst producers of goods and …

The EU countries lag well behind the US in the intensity with which the business sector uses
ICT as a factor of production. Further, businesses in the EU produce relatively lower …

Firm growth, innovation and the business cycle: Background report for the 2014 competitiveness
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Both Korea and Japan are leading exporting countries of advanced manufactured products,
and the competitive and efficient manufacturing activities are important pillars of the …

We study sectoral business cycles for industry across EU countries, looking in particular how
these are affected by common exogenous shocks (this is our definition of resilience), and …

Tato kniha je praktickým průvodcem problematikou hospodářských či strukturálních reforem
v Evropské unii. Nabízí teoretický a empirický základ pro pochopení toho, jak mohou …