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Dynamics of investment and firm performance : comparative evidence from manufacturing industries
Grazzi, Marco; Jacoby, Nadia; Treibich, Tania - 2013
If the relation between investment and economic growth is well established in the macroeconomic literature, the existence of a similar link at the level of the firm has been challenged by empirical work. This paper investigates the channels linking investment and firm performance in the French...
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Creative Disruption : Technology Innovation, Labour Demand and the Pandemic
Barth, Erling; Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2022
We utilize a new survey on Norwegian firms' digitalization and technology investments, linked to population-wide register data, to show that the pandemic massively disrupted the technology investment plans of firms, not only postponing investments, but also introducing new technologies. More...
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Creative disruption : technology innovation, labour demand and the pandemic
Barth, Erling; Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2022
We utilize a new survey on Norwegian firms' digitalization and technology investments, linked to population-wide register data, to show that the pandemic massively disrupted the technology investment plans of firms, not only postponing investments, but also introducing new technologies. More...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470541
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Changes in and Insights on Potential Industry and Enterprise Insolvency in the Manufacturing Sector
Oh, Young-Seok; Park, Sung Keun - 2023
This paper takes the spectrum approach to identify possible industrial and enterprise insolvency and goes on to conduct a composite analysis of both the potential industry insolvency spectrum and enterprise insolvency spectrum. Recently, the proportion of industries and enterprises showing signs...
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Decentralized environmental regulations and plant-level productivity
Ghosal, Vivek; Stephan, Andreas; Weiss, Jan F. - 2018
Using a unique plant-level dataset we examine total factor productivity (TFP) growth and its components, related to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011906240
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Robots at work? Pitfalls of industry level data
Bekhtiar, Karim; Bittschi, Benjamin; Sellner, Richard - 2021
In a seminal paper Graetz and Michaels (2018) find that robots increase labor productivity and TFP, lower output prices … industries leads to a sizable drop of the productivity effects, halving the effect size for labor productivity and insignificant … controlling for demographic workforce characteristics is essential for obtaining significant labor productivity effects and leads …
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Production risk, energy use efficiency and productivity of Korean industries
Khayyat, Nabaz T.; Heshmati, Almas - 2014
Korea imports all of its primary energy, which leads to high dependency and vulnerability related to its energy supply. Efficiency in the use of energy is a way to reduce dependency and emissions. This study provides empirical results of the stochastic production process in energy use. Special...
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Measuring and Decomposing Sources of Productivity Performance in India’s Paper and Pulp Industry Under Liberalized Regime : A Nonparametric Approach
Ray, Sarbapriya - 2012
The purpose of this study is to develop a methodology in measuring productivity growth by decomposing it into technical … of liberalization on productivity growth of India's paper industry. Specifically, this study quantifies the level of … technical efficiency and technical change in this particular manufacturing sector. The paper applies Malmquist Productivity …
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Eastern Africa's Manufacturing Sector : Promoting Technology, Innovation, Productivity and Linkages
Bienen, Derk - 2015
This report assesses major opportunities and constraints for the development of Eastern Africa's manufacturing sector, considers suitable examples from other regions, and draws lessons to enhance the manufacturing sector's contribution to Eastern Africa's economic transformation. The report is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015874
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Recent Trends in Economic Activity and TFP in Italy With a Focus on Embodied Technical Progress
Mistretta, Alessandro - 2019
In this paper we provide fresh evidence on TFP performance in the Italian economy since 1995, taking into account the changing composition of primary inputs across different capital goods and employment skills, as well as technical progress embodied in different vintages of the productive...
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