Chapter 1: The Productivity Puzzle - A critical assessment and an outlook on the COVID-19 crisis.- Chapter 2: Revisiting intangible capital and labour productivity growth, 2000-2015: Accounting for the crisis and economic recovery in the EU.- Chapter 3: The Rule of Law and Labour Productivity Growth by Businesses: Evidence for the EU, 1998-2005.- Chapter 4: Organizational Trust, Organizational Fear and TFP Growth: A sectoral analysis for the EU.- Chapter 5: Intangible Capital and Labor Productivity Growth: Panel evidence for the EU from 1998-2005.- Chapter 6: Measuring Innovation - Intangible capital investment in the EU.- Chapter 7: Does too much trust hamper economic growth.- Chapter 8: Social Capital, Trust and Economic Growth.