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Information Technology Use and Productivity at the Individual Level
Gandal, Neil; King III, Charles; Alstyne, Marshall W. Van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
IT are more productive, and if heavier users of IT are indeed more productive, how does this increase in productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124149
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Americans Do I.T. Better: US Multinationals and the Productivity Miracle
Bloom, Nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
The US has experienced a sustained increase in productivity growth since the mid-1990s, particularly in sectors that … intensively use information technologies (IT). This has not occurred in Europe. If the US “productivity miracle” is due to a … abroad. This paper shows in fact that US multinationals operating in the UK do have higher productivity than non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005114281
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Do Exporters Gain From VERs?
de Melo, Jaime; Winters, L. Alan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990
welfare. Key parameters of demand and supply are estimated for leather footwear exports from Taiwan subject to the USA Orderly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661823
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Using Export Market Performance to Evaluate Regional Preferential Policies in China
Schminke, Annette; Van Biesebroeck, Johannes - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We apply program evaluation methods to analyze the effectiveness of two types of preferential regional policy programs in China's manufacturing sector. Economic and Technological Development Zones (ETDZs) aim to facilitate firms' internationalization strategies. Science and Technology Industrial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009385770
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A Theory of Slow-Moving Capital and Contagion
Acharya, Viral V; Shin, Hyun Song; Yorulmazer, Tanju - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
Fire sales that occur during crises beg the question of why sufficient outside capital does not move in quickly to take advantage of fire sales, or in other words, why outside capital is so slow-moving. We propose an answer to this puzzle in the context of an equilibrium model of capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980209
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Nonlinear Dynamics, Spillovers and Growth in the G7 Economies: An Empirical Investigation
Sarno, Lucio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
This paper proposes an empirical growth model which is consistent with a stochastic steady-state labour productivity … dynamic adjustment towards long-run equilibrium is governed by a logistic function, while also capturing spillover effects in …
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Technology in Growth
Keely, Louise; Quah, Danny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
We review the role of R&D in endogenous growth theory, and describe extant empirical research – macro and micro – bearing on R&D as an engine of growth. Taking R&D to be key, while recognizing the significance of economic incentives, emphasizes knowledge as an economic object and, more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005497933
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On the Distribution of Income and Worker Assignment under Intra-Firm Spillovers, with an Application to Ideas And Networks
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
human capital, productivity and creativity, i.e. the ability to produce ideas that may be duplicated over a network. Under …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123995
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It's Not What You Make, It's How You Use IT: Measuring the Welfare Benefits of the IT Revolution Across Countries
Bayoumi, Tamim; Haacker, Markus - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
This Paper analyses the welfare benefits from falling relative prices of IT (Information Technology) goods across a wide range of countries. Using two separate methodologies and datasets, we find that welfare benefits mainly accrue to users of IT, not their producers, because of falling relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124148
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Information Technology, Organisational Change and Productivity
Crespi, Gustavo; Criscuolo, Chiara; Haskel, Jonathan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
We examine the relationships between productivity growth, IT investment and organisational change (DO) using UK firm … effect on productivity growth, (c) non-IT investment and DO do not interact in their effect on productivity growth. Some new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136706