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This year, the Competitiveness Research Network (CompNet) celebrates its 10th Annual Conference, together with Banque de France as co-host, which will (hopefully) take place in Paris. The goal of this conference is to enhance academic and policy discussion on the effects of COVID-19 on productivity, and to provide a forum for new policy-oriented research.
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The Competitiveness Research Network (CompNet) and the National Bank of Slovakia (NBS) are jointly inviting papers addressing one or more of the topics mentioned below from either micro and macro level perspectives.
Sponsored by the Chief Economist Office for the World Bank’s Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions Practice Group and the Competitiveness Research Network.
Join us at our 11th Annual Conference "Productivity Growth, Climate Change, and Digitalization at Times of Repeated Shocks", jointly organised by CompNet, EIB & ENRI at the Headquarters of the EIB in Luxembourg on September 14 - 15, 2022.
This policy dialogue will bring together different stakeholders to show preliminary evidence based on firm level data on France, Germany and Italy on how the pandemic and subsequent aid given has affected their level of productivity.
The 1st Data User Conference is jointly organized by the Competitiveness Research Network (CompNet), France Stratégie and the Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH).
This paper revisits the question about the role of culture for comparative development differences by considering heterogeneity in patience as a central factor.
The widespread emergence of intangible technologies in recent decades may have significantly hurt output growth-even when these technologies replaced considerably less productive tangible technologies-because of low interest rates.
In this paper, we investigate the economic returns to industrial espionage by linking information from East Germany's foreign intelligence service to sector-specific gaps in total factor productivity (TFP) between West and East Germany.
