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Benchmarking Efficiency of Telecommunication Industries in the US and Major European Countries: A Stochastic Possibility Frontiers Approach
Erber, Georg - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006
The impact of ICT on the efficiency of different national telecommunication industries of the US, Germany, France, the UK and the Netherlands is analysed by using a stochastic production possibility frontier approach. The relative inefficiencies of these industries measured as distances to the...
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Industry-Specific Knowledge Spurs Productivity: An Application of Panel Cointegration
Zloczysti, Petra - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
linkage between channels of international knowledge spillovers and total factor productivity. We distinguish between domestic … contribution of technology transfer to industrial productivity. To account for technological distance, we weight foreign knowledge … mainly drives productivity in the respective sector. …
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Nested Stochastic Possibility Frontiers with Heterogeneous Capital Inputs
Erber, Georg; Madlener, Reinhard - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
This paper studies the productivity impact of heterogeneous capital inputs of selected EU-15 member countries and of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963835
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The "V-Factor": Distribution, Timing and Correlates of the Great Indian Growth Turnaround
Ghate, Chetan; Wright, Stephen - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
The ratio of Indian to US per capita output over the past 45 years has displayed a distinctive "V"-shaped pattern. We show that a strikingly similar V-shaped pattern is visible not just in aggregate output .figures, but also as the primary determinant of long-term movements in the...
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Understanding the Contributions of Reallocation to Productivity Growth: Lessons from a Comparative Firm-Level Analysis
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
aggregate productivity growth during the socialist and reform periods in six transition economies. Modifying a standard … decomposition technique to better reflect the role of firm entry, we find that reallocation rates and productivity contributions are … very low under socialism. After reforms, they rise dramatically, and productivity contributions greatly exceed those …
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Product Policy and the East-West Productivity Gap: Evidence from German Manufacturing Firms
Görzig, Bernd; Gornig, Martin; Voshage, Ramona; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
international division of labour. We concentrate on the question, to what extent they have caught up with the productivity level of … their Western counterparts of similar size and sector and how this productivity difference is related to changes in their … policy and productivity information for individual manufacturers from both parts of the country. Using a decomposition …
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Implications of Mandatory Registration of Mobile Phone Users in Africa
Jentzsch, Nicola - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
Sub-Saharan Africa ranks among the top regions in terms of growth in the number of mobile phone users. The success of mobile telephony is attributed to the opening of markets for private players and lenient regulatory policy. However, markets may be increasingly saturated and new regulations...
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Mobile Phone Termination Charges with Asymmetric Regulation
Baake, Pio; Mitusch, Kay - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005
We model competition between two unregulated mobile phone companies with price-elastic demand and less than full market coverage. We also assume that there is a regulated full-coverage fixed network. In order to induce stronger competition, mobile companies could have an incentive to raise their...
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Analyzing E-Learning Adoption via Recursive Partitioning
Köllinger, Philipp; Schade, Christian - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003
The paper analyzes factors that influence the adoption of e-learning and gives an example of how to forecast technology adoption based on a post-hoc predictive segmentation using a classification and regression tree (CART). We find strong evidence for the existence of technological...
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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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