This paper reviews recent studies on the links between competition, innovation and
productivity growth in the long run. From a long-run perspective, one can see that gains from …

Innovation is a broad topic, about which much has been written. Almost every kind of public
policy has either a direct or an indirect impact on factors that affect innovative activity. The …

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 …

As events highlight deep divisions in attitudes between America and Europe, this is a very
timely study of different approaches to the problems of domestic inequality and poverty …

Regulatory framework conditions have been identified as important factors influencing the
innovation activities of companies, industries and whole economies. However, in the …

Liberalization and privatization have made the regulatory environment more market-friendly
throughout the OECD. However using a large new dataset on product market regulation, we …

The past twenty years have been a time of many new technological developments, changing
business practices, and interesting innovations in the financial information system (IS) and …

We use newly assembled data on regulation in several sectors of many OECD countries to
provide evidence that regulatory reform of product markets is associated with an increase in …

We use a micro dataset that collects information across individuals, countries, and time to
investigate the determinants of entrepreneurial activity in thirty-seven developed and …

Firms with high shares of workers on fixed-term contracts tend to have higher sales of
imitative new products but perform significantly worse on sales of innovative new products …