Can Europe close its productivity gap with America?
The gap has widened for two decades and the diagnoses do not agree: capital markets, energy costs, regulation, scale, or research that never reaches a market.
Grouped by the country the institution sits in, because where it sits shapes what it concludes. Every title links to the institution's own page; nothing is reproduced here.
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United States
Peterson Institute for International Economics
- Competitiveness and stability in banking: Two sides of the same coin
- Higher energy prices due to the Middle East war would slow economic growth globally, particularly in emerging markets
- Class dismissed: The effect of international student exclusion on the US STEM workforce and economic growth
- Migration or stagnation: Aging and economic growth in Korea today, the world tomorrow
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Belgium
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Germany
Kiel Institute for the World Economy
- Tariffs Hit Differently: The Regional Impact of US tariffs across Europe and the Role of the Single Market - Kiel Institute
- Special Economic Zones in India: Engines of economic growth or inefficiency? - Kiel Institute
- Productivity Effects of Processing and Ordinary Export Market Entry: A Time-varying Treatments Approach - Kiel Institute
- Empirical Productivity Distributions and International Trade - Kiel Institute
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Canada
Macdonald-Laurier Institute
- Don’t be fooled – Canada lags in AI as well as economic growth: Jon Hartley and Maddux Shipton for Inside Policy
- Solving Canada’s competitiveness problem and attracting investment: Jerome Gessaroli and Peter Copeland for Inside Policy Talks
- The ‘mega productivity’ tax deduction — good intentions, wrong policy: Jack Mintz in the Financial Post
- How diversity requirements reduced productivity for Canada’s research chairs: Peter Copeland and Eric Kaufmann on Inside Policy Talks
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Indonesia
Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia
- Competitiveness
- Towards an ASEAN–Japan Next-Generation Vehicle Industry Masterplan Aligning Industrial Transformation, Decarbonisation, and Regional Competitiveness
- Towards an ASEAN–Japan Next-Generation Vehicle Industry Masterplan Aligning Industrial Transformation, Decarbonisation, and Regional Competitiveness
- Enhancing India’s Trade Competitiveness through Inclusive Liberalisation
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Australia
Institute of Public Affairs
- Institute of Public Affairs’ submission to the Productivity Commission’s inquiry into housing supply regulation
- Institute of Public Affairs submission to the Select Committee on Productivity in Australia
- IPA submission to the inquiry into Creating sustainable economic growth in rural and regional Australia
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