Publications in: Productivity, Innovation and New Economy

Assessing the Key Economic Drivers for Change in the Current Business Climate

Published: June, 2004

European Outsourcing Association’s Conference. Amsterdam, the Netherlands. June 9-10, 2004.

Internet Use by Businesses in Old and New EU Member Countries

Published: April, 2004

TIGER Conference The New Economy and Post-Socialist Transition. Warsaw, April 10-11, 2004.

PR04 Scope for Efficiency Studies

Published: November, 2003

This report for OFWAT provides an assessment of the scope for future operating and capital efficiency in the water and sewerage industries by using both a “top-down” and “bottom-up” approach. The top-down approach assesses the scope for future efficiency improvements by analysing past productivity trends in the water and sewerage industries and by undertaking a […]

ICT and GDP Growth in the United Kingdom: A Sectoral Analysis

Published: April, 2003

This report for Cisco Systems quantifies the contribution of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to output and labour productivity growth for twelve sectors of the UK. By using growth accounting methods, this study shows that the contribution of ICT to economic performance is substantial for most of the UK sectors.

ICT Investment and Productivity in the UK: a Regional Assessment

Published: April, 2003

This Brief summarises our research for Cisco Systems which quantifies the contribution of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to output and labour productivity growth for twelve sectors of the UK. By using growth accounting methods, this study shows that the contribution of ICT to economic performance is substantial for most of the UK sectors.

Economic and Institutional Determinants of Internet Usage: Central and Eastern Europe and the European Union

Published: 2003

TIGER Working Paper Series, 44, Warsaw, August 2003. Muller, P. and Salsas, P.

European Integration and Productivity: Exploring the Gains of the Single Market

Published: May, 2002

This paper uses a variety of panel data techniques to argue that the European Single Market Programme significantly increased productivity in a number of European countries. In particular, as a result of the Programme, industry productivity increased considerably in 1992 and 1993 in France, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands and in the UK.

Internet Use in Transition Economies: Economic and Institutional Determinants

Published: 2002

Discussion Paper No. 2002/95. World Institute for Development Economics Research. October 2002. Muller, P.

The New Economy, EU Accession Challenges, and the EBRD

Published: 2001

Revue d’Economie Financière, Special Issue, 2001. Muller, P.

Patterns of State Productivity Growth in U.S. Farm Sector: Linking the State and Aggregate Models

Published: February, 1999

American Journal of Agricultural Economics 81, pp. 164-179, February 1999. Ball, E., Gollop, F., Kelly-Hawke, A. and Swinand, G.