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The 1980s have seen the beginnings of a change of heart among developing country policymakers, as the import-substitution consensus of the previous decade has all but evaporated. It is paradoxical that the 1980s should have become the decade of trade liberalization in LDCs, since this has also...
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technology (like R&D). Technologies can account for up to a quarter of the growth in demand for the college educated in the …
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differences, unobserved region-industry factor quality differences and variation in production technology across industries. We … findings, including multiple cones of diversification, region-industry technology differences, agglomeration, and increasing …
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relationship between technology intensity and vertical integration from a simple incomplete contracts model. Then, we investigate … find that the technology intensities of downstream (producer) and upstream (supplier) industries have opposite effects on … measures of technology intensity, with alternative estimation strategies, and with or without controlling for a number of firm …
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computerization instead of R&D as a measure of technology; (iv) in the Anglo-Saxon countries a maximum of one-third of the aggregate …
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management, as a key factor. A model of the interaction between technology, organization and economic performance is then … adjustment in technology-using sectors if it is not suited to the social capabilities of the society; (4) reversal of …
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Recent theoretical models argue that a bank’s organizational structure reflects its lending technology. A … communication technology, have a wider span of organization, and are further removed from a decision unit with lending authority … organizational structure and technology of rival banks in the vicinity influence local banking competition. …
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Poor countries must specialize in standardized, labour-intensive commodities. Middle-income countries may have a richer menu of options available to them if their labour force is reasonably well-educated and skilled. This paper is motivated by the possibility that there may exist multiple...
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hours worked rise or fall when technology improves. Recent literature finds that when hours per person enter the VAR in … following a technology improvement. The issue is the common high-low-high pattern of hours per capita and productivity growth …
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observed price patterns. The high volatility results from high uncertainty about the average productivity of a new technology …. Investors learn about this productivity before deciding whether to adopt the technology on a large scale. For technologies that … railroad technology by the late 1850s. …
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