Search Results - subject:"Cross Country Comparisons"

Innovation and Performance in Manufacturing Industries: A Comparison of the Nordic Countries

Lööf, Hans; Heshmati, Almas; Asplund, Rita; Nåås, … - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2001

deviations between macro and micro levels. .H\ZRUGV Community Innovation Survey, CIS, cross-country comparisons, innovation … on cross-country comparisons using CIS data, attention has also been focused on data quality and firm and industry … problems affecting cross-country comparisons. Mohnen and Mairesse (2001) found that the procedure proposed by Eurostat — where …

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INVESTMENT CLIMATE ASSESSMENT IN INDONESIA, MALAYSIA, THE PHILIPPINES AND THAILAND: RESULTS FROM POOLING FIRM-LEVEL DATA

ESCRIBANO, ALVARO; GUASCH, J. LUIS; ORTE, MANUEL DE; … - In: The Singapore Economic Review (SER) 54 (2009) 03, pp. 335-366

Investment Climate surveys (ICs) are a recent instrument used by the World Bank to identify key obstacles to country competitiveness and to guide policy reforms and government interventions in developing countries. In this paper, panel data from four ICs of four South East Asian (SEA) countries...

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Rule of Law and the Resource Curse: Abundance Versus Intensity

Norman, Catherine - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 43 (2009) 2, pp. 183-207

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The Technological Capabilities of Nations: A Survey of Composite Indicators

Archibugi, Daniele; Crespi, Francesco; Denni, Mario; … - In: QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2009) 2

Composite synthetic indicators of the technological capabilities of nations have been used ever more frequently over the last few years, creating a sort of Olympic Games medal table of the innovation race. Such measurement tools have been formulated at the macroeconomic level by the European...

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Income Inequality Comparisons with Dirty Data: The UK and Spain during the 1980s

Cowell, Frank A; Litchfield, Julie - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 1999

Inequality comparisons between countries and over time should take into account problems of data imperfection. We examine the contrasting experience of the UK and spain during the 1980s in terms of the distribution of disposable income. We consider whether the apparent divergence of inequality...

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Income inequality comparisons with dirty data: the UK and Spain during the 1980s

Cowell, Frank; Litchfield, Julie; Mercader-Prats, Magda - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999

Inequality comparisons between countries and over time should take into account problems of data imperfection. We examine the contrasting experience of the UK and Spain during the 1980s in terms of the distribution of disposable income. We consider whether the apparent divergence in inequality...

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Another look at the identical tastes hypothesis on the analysis of cross-country alcohol data

Selvanathan, Saroja; Selvanathan, Eliyathamby - In: Empirical Economics 32 (2007) 1, pp. 185-215

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Comparing international consumption patterns

Clements, Kenneth; Wu, Yanrui; Zhang, Jing - In: Empirical Economics 31 (2006) 1, pp. 1-30

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Money Demand in EU Countries: A Survey

Browne, Frank; Fagan, Gabriel; Henry, Jerome - EconWPA - 2005

Money demand is probably one of the most extensively studied economic relationship in applied economics. While useful surveys of existing literature are available, much of the attention has focused on the US. However, a considerable number of papers have recently been produced dealing with the...

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The HP-Filter in Cross-Country Comparisons

Marcet, Albert; Ravn, Morten O - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

Many empirical studies have applied the Hodrick-Prescott filter in cross-country comparisons of business cycle …

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