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Persistence and Determinants of Firm Profit in Emerging Markets

Stephan, Andreas; Tsapin, Andriy - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

The paper studies the persistence of profit and its determinants in emerging markets. We apply Markov chain analysis, dynamic panel GMM estimation, and quantile regression techniques to a panel of approximately 3,000 Ukrainian companies. The empirical results show a moderate level of profit...

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Benchmarking Efficiency of Telecommunication Industries in the US and Major European Countries: A Stochastic Possibility Frontiers Approach

Erber, Georg - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

The impact of ICT on the efficiency of different national telecommunication industries of the US, Germany, France, the UK and the Netherlands is analysed by using a stochastic production possibility frontier approach. The relative inefficiencies of these industries measured as distances to the...

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Technological Change and Transition: Relative Contributions to Worldwide Growth during the 1990s

Badunenko, Oleg; Henderson, Daniel J.; Zelenyuk, Valentin - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

In this paper we used the procedures developed in the Kumar and Russell (2002) growth-accounting study to examine cross-country growth during the 1990's. Using a data set comprising developed, newly industrialized, developing and transitional economies, we decomposed the growth of output per...

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Productivity Differences in OECD Countries

Pascual, Antonio I. Garcia - CESifo - 2000

This paper investigates cross-country productivity convergence at a sectoral level using multivariate unit-root tests … data. Third, when the null hypothesis of non convergence is rejected, a second test determines the number of converging … countries. Based on a sample of thirteen OECD countries our results show evidence of convergence in three out of six sectors …

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Long Memory in US Real Output per Capita

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alana, Luis A. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

This paper analyses the long memory properties of quarterly real output per capita in the US (1948Q1 - 2008Q3) using non-parametric, semi-parametric and parametric techniques. The results vary substantially depending on the methodology employed. Evidence of mean reversion is obtained in a...

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