Economists have shown that large and persistent differences in productivity levels across
businesses are ubiquitous. This finding has shaped research agendas in a number of fields …

This paper provides a critical review of the recent empirical evidence on the links between
regulations affecting the hiring and firing of workers, labour reallocation and productivity …

The recent economics literature has begun to recognise that ICT is a heterogeneous
technology altering information storage, processing and communication in distinct ways. In …

The African Economic Outlook is the only annual report that monitors in detail the economic
performance of 53 individual countries on the continent, using a strictly comparable …

This paper uses a new cross-country cross-industry dataset on investment in tangible and
intangible assets for 18 European countries and the US. We set out a framework for …

Notwithstanding the growing body of evidence documenting the persistent differences in the
dynamism of economies, our understanding of their drivers is still rather limited. This paper …

Investment in knowledge-based capital (KBC)–assets that lack physical embodiment, such
as computerised information, innovative property and economic competencies–has been …

Regulation, innovation and competitiveness in global markets have been discussed for
several decades. Recently, policy makers have started to extend their focus towards the …

This paper uses panel regression techniques to assess the policy determinants of private
sector innovative activity–proxied by R&D expenditure and the number of new patents …

Exploiting a unique dataset including cross-country comparable hiring and separation rates
by type of transition for 24 OECD countries, 23 business-sector industries and 13years, we …