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Trade Liberalization, Intermediate Inputs and Productivity: Evidence from Indonesia

Amiti, Mary; Konings, Jozef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

distinguish between productivity gains arising from lower tariffs on final goods relative to those on intermediate inputs. Lower … output tariffs can produce productivity gains by inducing tougher import competition whereas cheaper imported inputs can …, which includes plant level information on imported inputs. The results show that the largest gains arise from reducing input …

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Export Destinations and Input Prices

Bastos, Paulo; Silva, Joana; Verhoogen, Eric A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

destinations and find that exporting to richer countries leads firms to charge more for outputs and pay higher prices for inputs … leads firms to raise the average quality of goods they produce and to purchase higher-quality inputs. …

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British Manufacturing Productivity 1955-1983: Measurement Problems, Oil Shocks and Thatcher Effects

Mendis, Lionel; Muellbauer, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1984

There has been considerable controversy over the apparent slowdown in productivity growth in Britain and in other industrial countries over 1971-80 and the apparent speed up in at least British productivity growth over 1980-83. This paper throws light on these matters by means of an aggregate...

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Entrepreneurship Capital - Determinants and Impact

Audretsch, David B; Keilbach, Max - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Since the early 1980s, the role and general perception of entrepreneurship and start-up activities has changed drastically. In this paper, we investigate what determines regions’ entrepreneurial behaviour and the impact of it on regional economic performance. We argue that economic knowledge...

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Entrepreneurship Capital and Economic Performance

Audretsch, David B; Keilbach, Max - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

The neoclassical model of the production function, as applied by Robert Solow to build the neoclassical model of growth, linked labour and capital to output. More recently, Romer and others have expanded the model to include measures of knowledge capital. In this Paper we introduce a new factor,...

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Income and Health Spending: Evidence from Oil Price Shocks

Acemoglu, Daron; Finkelstein, Amy; Notowidigdo, Matthew J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Health expenditures as a share of GDP have more than tripled over the last half century. A common conjecture is that this is primarily a consequence of rising real per capita income, which more than doubled over the same period. We investigate this hypothesis empirically by instrumenting for...

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Investment and Usage of New Technologies: Evidence from a Shared ATM Network

Degryse, Hans; Ferrari, Stijn; Verboven, Frank - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

When new technologies become available, it is not only essential that firms have the correct investment incentives, but often also that consumers make the proper usage decisions. This paper studies investment and usage in a shared ATM network. Because all banks coordinate their ATM investment...

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Trade, Technology and UK Wage Inequality

Haskel, Jonathan; Slaughter, Matthew - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

The U.K. skill premium fell from the 1950s to the late 1970s and then rose very sharply. This paper examines the contributions to these relative wage movements of international trade and technical change. We first measure trade as changes in product prices and technical change as TFP growth....

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Technology, Transfer and Spillovers: Does Local Participation With Multinationals Matter?

Blomström, Magnus; Sjöholm, Fredrik - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

This paper examines the effects on technology transfer and spillovers deriving from ownership sharing of foreign …

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Relative Wages and Trade-Induced Changes in Technology

Ekholm, Karolina; Ulltveit-Moe, Karen-Helene - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

-intensive technology because a lowering of variable costs requires additional use of skilled labour. This way, we establish a link between … trade, technology and relative returns to skilled and unskilled labour. Moreover, we show that as market integration …

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