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Innovation and Productivity - Evidence from Six Latin American Countries
Crespi, Gustavo; Zuniga, Pluvia - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
This study examines the determinants of technological innovation and its impact on firm labor productivity across six … technological advances, and those that innovate have greater labor productivity than those that do not. Yet firm-level determinants … productivity, however, highlight the importance of innovation in enabling firms to improve economic performance and catch up. …
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Transition to a functional financial safety net in Latin America : paper prepared for the Inter-American Development Bank Conference on "Safe and Sound Financial Systems: What Work...
Garber, Peter M. - Conference "Safe and Sound Financial Systems: What … - 1997
The basic worldwide financial safety net architecture provides for a system of similar institutions: a lender of last resort, deposit insurance, and prudential regulation. In countries whose banking systems suffer seriously from negative capital positions and overbanking, such as in some Latin...
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How should financial institutions and markets be structured? : analysis and options for financial system design ; prepared for "Safe and sound financial systems: what works for Lat...
Kaufman, George G.; Kroszner, Randall S. - Conference "Safe and Sound Financial Systems: What … - 1997
This paper analyzes the consequences of alternative financial structures for financial efficiency and stability. The focus is on the organizational structure of banks. Alternative bank structures range from "narrow banks" to broad "universal banks". Each banking structure is assessed in its...
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Safe and sound financial systems : what works for Latin America
Rojas-Suárez, Liliana (contributor) - 1997
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Responsive Adjustment of Feed-in Tariffs to Dynamic PV Technology Development
Grau, Thilo - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
This paper reviews the adjustments of the feed-in tariff for new solar photovoltaics (PV) installations in Germany. As PV system prices declined rapidly over the last years, the German government implemented automatic mechanisms to adjust the support level for new installations in response to...
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Innovation, R&D Investment and Productivity: Uruguayan Manufacturing Firms
Cassoni, Adriana; Ramada, Magdalena - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
innovation were found to be significant, promoting a non-negligible acceleration of labor productivity gains. However, the … respect to products on labor productivity. However, the degree of novelty of process innovation is significantly inferior to …
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Technology Portfolio and Market Value
Schmidt-Ehmcke, Jens; Zloczysti, Petra - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
This paper discusses the impact of a firm's technology portfolio on its market value. Two concepts are used to characterize a firm's portfolio: the number of technological fields and the degree of relatedness within the portfolio characterized by the amount of joint occurrences of patents in...
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Industrial and technological development
Teitel, Simón - 1993
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