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Dynamic Models of R&D, Innovation and Productivity: Panel Data Evidence for Dutch and French Manufacturing

Raymond, Wladimir; Mairesse, Jacques; Mohnen, Pierre; … - CESifo - 2013

This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly … individual effects and idiosyncratic errors correlated across equations and that differ in the way innovation enters the … Community Innovation Survey. The results provide evidence of robust unidirectional causality from innovation to productivity and …

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Timing of Technology Adoption and Product Market Competition

Milliou, Chrysovalantou; Petrakis, Emmanuel - CESifo - 2009

This paper examines how product market competition affects firms’ timing of adopting a new technology as well as whether the market provides sufficient adoption incentives. It shows that adoption dates differ not only among symmetric firms but also among markets with Cournot and Bertrand...

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The Quantitative Importance of Openness in Development

Cai, Wenbiao; Ravikumar, B.; Riezman, Raymond - CESifo - 2013

This paper deals with a classic development question: how can the process of economic development – transition from stagnation in a traditional technology to industrialization and prosperity with a modern technology – be accelerated? Lewis (1954) and Rostow (1956) argue that the pace of...

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Information, Coordination, and the Industrialization of Countries

Englmaier, Florian; Reisinger, Markus - CESifo - 2006

The industrialization process of a country is often plagued by a failure to coordinate investment decisions. Using the Global Games approach we can solve this coordination problem and eliminate the problem of multiple equilibria. We show how appropriate information provision enhances efficiency....

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Sources of the German Productivity Demise – Tracing the Effects of Industry-Level ICT Investment

Eicher, Theo; Röhn, Oliver - CESifo - 2007

While the US experienced two successive labor productivity surges in 1995 and 2000, Germany’s productivity declined dramatically during the same period. We examine the sources of Germany’s productivity demise using the ifo industry growth accounting database that provides detailed...

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Ethnic Divisions and Production in Firms

Hjort, Jonas - CESifo - 2013

A body of literature suggests that ethnic heterogeneity limits economic growth. This paper provides microeconometric evidence on the direct effect of ethnic divisions on productivity. In team production at a plant in Kenya, an upstream worker supplies and distributes flowers to two downstream...

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Modeling Institutions, Start-Ups and Productivity during Transition

Brixiova, Zuzana; Egert, Balazs - CESifo - 2010

The transition paths from plan to market have varied markedly across countries. Central and Eastern European and the Baltic countries, which opted for a fast and profound transformation of their institutions including business climates, rapidly narrowed the productivity gap with advanced...

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Exports and Property Prices in France: Are they Connected?

Egert, Balazs; Kierzenkowski, Rafal - CESifo - 2010

France has seen a marked deterioration in its export performance in the last 10 years or so. Previous empirical research pointed out that weak export performance was due to i) vigorous domestic demand; ii) lower mark-ups due to head-to-head competition with Germany; iii) low non-price...

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Catch Me If You Can: Education and Catch-up in the Industrial Revolution

Becker, Sascha O.; Hornung, Erik; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2009

Existing evidence, mostly from British textile industries, rejects the importance of formal education for the Industrial Revolution. We provide new evidence from Prussia, a technological follower, where early-19th-century institutional reforms created the conditions to adopt the exogenously...

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Urban Shrinkage in Eastern Germany

Bartholomae, Florian W.; Nam, Chang Woon; Schoenberg, Alina - CESifo - 2015

This paper questions the widely applied parallelism of demographic and economic development in characterizing urban shrinkage in Germany, and argues that the usage of population change as a single indicator leads to incorrect policy recommendations for combating urban shrinkage. As the cases of...

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