Understanding the causes of the slowdown in aggregate productivity growth is key to maintaining the competitiveness of advanced economies and ensuring long-term economic prosperity. This paper is the first to provide evidence that investment in Knowledge-Based Capital (KBC), despite having a positive effect on productivity at the micro level, is a driver of the weak productivity performance at the ...
I assert that air pollution from nitrogen oxides affects the productivity of employees in Mexican court hearings. This is the first article analyzing this connection and the first to disentangle work-breaks from the productivity of white-collar workers. I merge hourly pollution with granular hearing data under the assumption that the length of the hearing approximates productivity and identify causality ...
This workshop brings together high profile junior researchers from leading universities in Europe and the US, who present recent work on the nexus of firms and productivity in developing economies. The workshop is jointly organized by researchers from the DIW and the University of Munich (LMU). Attendance by invitation!
In Deutschland und Europa hat die Wirtschaftstätigkeit des Staates infolge von Privatisierungen und der Liberalisierung über Jahrzehnte abgenommen. In den letzten Jahren lässt sich beobachten, dass Kommunen die Energie- und Wasserversorgung verstärkt rekommunalisieren, wodurch eine neue Generation öffentlicher Unternehmen entsteht. Diese Unternehmen unterscheiden sich in ihrer Organisation und...
In sectors of general interests, the economic activity of the state decreased over decades as a consequence of privatisation and liberalisation. Recently, local governments began to remunicipalise in the energy and water sector, thereby creating a new and modern generation of state-owned firms. These firms, however, differ in organisation and production environment from the state monopolists of...
Ziel des Projektvorhabens „Entwicklung und Messung der Digitalisierung der Wirtschaft am Standort in Deutschland“ ist es, die Digitalisierung der Wirtschaft am Standort Deutschland in ihrer Vielschichtigkeit zu messen und über den Zeitverlauf zu beobachten. Die Arbeitsergebnisse stellen sowohl der Wirtschaft als auch der Politik einen evidenzbasierten Orientierungsrahmen für ihre Entscheidungen...
The purpose of the project is to measure the digitalisation of the German economy and to track its development over time. The results will serve as an evidence-based framework for decision makers in policy and business. The project comprises several topics. DIW Berlin focuses on the analysis of the productivity effects of digitization.