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Restructuring And Productivity Growth In UK Manufacturing
Disney, Richard F; Haskel, Jonathan; Heden, Ylva - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
We analyse productivity growth in UK manufacturing 1980-92 using the newly available ARD panel of establishments drawn … establishments enter and increase market share). We find that (a) 'external restructuring' accounts for 50% of labour productivity …
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Long-Term Barriers to the International Diffusion of Innovations
Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
help explain current differences in total factor productivity and income per capita across countries. …
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Growth in Euro Area Labour Quality
Schwerdt, Guido; Turunen, Jarkko - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
nearly one third of euro area labour productivity growth. The results point to a significant decline in the contribution of … total factor productivity to euro area growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662236
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Antidumping Protection and Productivity Growth of Domestic Firms
Konings, Jozef; Vandenbussche, Hylke - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
evidence of increased Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth for firms protected by AD measures compared to firms that did not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666698
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Mapping The Two Faces Of R&D: Productivity Growth In A Panel Of OECD Industries
Griffith, Rachel; Redding, Stephen J.; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
productivity growth. …
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Optimal Diversification
Gomes, Joao F; Livdan, Dmitry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
In this Paper we show that the main empirical findings about firm diversification and performance are actually consistent with the optimal behavior of a firm that maximizes shareholder value. In our model, diversification allows a firm to explore better productive opportunities while taking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005667077
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Endogenous Growth: Lessons for and from Economic History
Crafts, Nicholas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
, notably, into establishing the magnitude and sources of total factor productivity growth. …
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The EU-US total factor productivity gap : An industry-level perspective
McMorrow, Kieran; Röger, Werner; Turrini, Alessandro … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
The EU-US total factor productivity (TFP) growth gap since the mid-1990's is concentrated in a handful of market …
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Openness to Trade and Industry Cost Dispersion: Evidence from a Panel of Italian Firms
Del Gatto, Massimo; Ottaviano, Gianmarco; Pagnini, Marcello - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
We use Italian firm-level data to investigate the impact of trade openness on the distribution of firms across marginal cost levels. In so doing, we implement a procedure that allows us to control not only for the standard transmission bias identified in firm-level TFP regressions but also for...
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Heterogeneous Responses of Firms to Trade Protection
Konings, Jozef; Vandenbussche, Hylke - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
This paper uses EU firm-level panel data to estimate the effect of Antidumping (AD) protection on the productivity of … EU domestic firms in import-competing industries. We find that firms with relatively low initial productivity - laggard … firms - have productivity gains during AD protection, while firms with high initial productivity - frontier firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791227