TFP growth in British and German manufacturing, 1950-1996

Economic Journal

Volumn 115, Issue 505, 2005, Pages 649-670

  Crafts, Nicholas ^a   Mills, Terence C ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL; ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; ECONOMIC GROWTH;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 28144449046     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2005.01013.x     Document Type: Article

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