The aim of this book is to provide empirical evidence that serves to strike the right balance between two objectives of government action: on one hand, policies that boost overall productivity; on the other, those that promote reallocating resources to companies that can use them more effectively.
Productivity is a fundamental notion in economics and management, and productivity enhancement is also the object of many government policies. Productivity varies widely at an industry and a country level, but even greater divergence can be found among individual companies in the same industries. The Economics of Firm Productivity: Concepts, Tools and Evidence provides useful data for guiding government action in an attempt to build economic policies on a solid foundation of empirical evidence. To this end, we use a micro-aggregated data set on twenty EU economies generated by CompNet, the Competitive Research Network established in 2012 among leading European institutions. By using micro-aggregated data pooled with macro-indicators, we are able to conduct fine-grained analyses and capture specificities that would otherwise go undetected. In this way, we glean more precise indications for policy-makers, which is the path to follow to avoid conceptual errors and mistakes in measurement.
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Date of publication April 2022
- EAN: 9781108489232
- ISBN: 9781108489232
- Pagine: XVIII + 224
- Formato: paper, ebook
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