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Nested Stochastic Possibility Frontiers with Heterogeneous Capital Inputs
Erber, Georg; Madlener, Reinhard - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
advantages between countries. In particular the different factor specific impacts of ICT and non-ICT capital stocks give a more …
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Appropriate Technology, Human Capital and Development Accounting
Chanda, Areendam; Farkas, Beatrice - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
Over the past decade, research explaining cross country income differences has increasingly pointed to the dominant role of total factor productivity (TFP) gaps as opposed to factor accumulation. Nevertheless, it is a widely held belief that a country's ability to absorb and implement...
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Goods Follow Bytes: The Impact of ICT on EU Trade
Mattes, Anselm; Meinen, Philipp; Pavel, Ferdinand - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
This paper empirically assesses whether the deployment and use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT … partners. The analysis tests the hypothesis that availability and use of ICT enhances trade by reducing transaction costs and … through network effects that materialize when both trading partners are advanced users of ICT. The empirical analysis is based …
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Are Geese Flying by Themselves inside China? An LSTR-SEM Approach to Income Convergence of Chinese Counties
Kholodilin, Konstantin A.; Girardin, Eric - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
In this paper, we examine beta-convergence of real per-capita income of Chinese counties. We account for both the spatial dependences between counties and the possibility of different convergence regimes. The first feature is captured by the spatial error term, whereas the second one is modeled...
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Can Internet Ads Serve as an Indicator of Homeownership Rates?
Kholodilin, Konstantin A.; Mense, Andreas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
In this paper, we propose an indicator of the homeownership rate based on Internet ads offering the housing for rent and sale. We constructed the HOR estimate using the number of ads in four different markets (flats for rent, flats for sale, houses for rent, and houses for sale). Our HOR...
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International Knowledge Spillovers through High-Tech Imports and R&D of Foreign-Owned Firms
Belitz, Heike; Mölders, Florian - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013
The international transmission of knowledge through import spillovers, as a source of TFP growth, has received much attention in the literature. We investigate two additional direct channels through which R&D disseminates: the import of high-technology goods and the internationalization of...
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Internet-Based Hedonic Indices of Rents and Prices for Flats: Example of Berlin
Kholodilin, Konstantin A.; Mense, Andreas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
In this paper, we suggest to estimate the home rents and prices in German regions/cities using the data from Internet ads offering the housing for rent and sale. Given the richness of information contained in the ads, we are able to construct the quality-adjusted rent and price indices using the...
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Is Technical Progress Sectorally Concentrated?: An Empirical Analysis for Western European Countries
Schiersch, Alexander; Belitz, Heike; Gornig, Martin - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
Previous research shows that technical progress at the industry level, measured by sectoral TFP growth, is more localized in continental European countries than in Anglo-Saxon countries. We use EU KLEMS data sets to decompose sectoral TFP for nine European countries by means of a Malmquist...
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European Regional Convergence in a Human Capital Augmented Solow Model
Eckey, Hans-Friedrich; Dreger, Christian; Türck, Matthias - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006
In this paper, the process of productivity convergence is investigated for the enlarged European Union using regional (NUTS-2) data. The Solow model extended by human capital is employed as a workhorse. Alternative strategies are proposed to control for spatial effects. All specifications...
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Economic Convergence and Rent-Seeking in Iran
Dreger, Christian; Rahmani, Teymur; Eckey, Hans-Friedrich - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
The neoclassical growth model predicts convergence of productivity or per capita output levels across regions. If participation in the labor force is constant, convergence of per capita income is implied. We investigate this hypothesis for the Iranian economy using data on demand deposits as a...
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