Convergence of firm-level productivity, globalisation and information technology: Evidence from France

Paul-Antoine Chevalier, Rémy Lecat and Nicholas Oulton

Economics Letters, 2012, vol. 116, issue 2, 244-246

Abstract: This article studies the firm-level productivity convergence process in the 1990s and the 2000s in France. The speed of convergence has slowed during the course of the 1990s, a fact which is explained principally by the acceleration of the productivity of firms on the technological frontier. Evidence is presented that information technology and globalisation may have had a bigger impact on the most productive firms.

Keywords: Convergence; TFP; ICT; Globalisation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D2 F1 J2 O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2012.02.022

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