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La productividad en la industria española: Evidencia microeconómica
Huergo, Elena; Moreno, Lourdes - EconWPA - 2005
El objetivo de este trabajo es ofrecer una revisión de las principales regularidades que, desde una óptica microeconómica, se han observado en los trabajos que analizan la evolución de la productividad y los determinantes de su crecimiento en la economía española durante las últimas...
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ICT productivity and firm propensity to innovative investment: learning effect evidence from italina micro data
Atzeni, Gianfranco Enrico; Carboni, Oliviero Antonio - EconWPA - 2005
introduction). However, what really matters in explaining ICT productivity is the level of innovation the new capital embodies. In …
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Measuring Governance, Corruption and State Capture: How Firms and Bureaucrats Shape the Business Environment in Transition Economies
Hellman, Joel S.; Jones, Geraint; Kaufmann, Daniel; … - EconWPA - 2003
Recent studies have focussed on the characteristics and policies of the state to explain the extent and causes of corruption, with little attention paid to the role played by firms. Consequently, the links between corporate governance and national governance have been unexplored. This paper...
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The Determinants of Economic Well-being:An Application in the Indian States
Basu, Sudip Ranjan - EconWPA - 2005
The purpose of this paper is to explore the determinants of economic well-being. We provide a methodology to compute well-being by aggregating different socio-economic dimensions with factor analysis technique. We also estimate quality of good governance (using latent variable approach) and a...
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Sustained Macroeconomic Reforms, Tepid Growth: A Governance Puzzle in Bolivia?
Kaufmann, Daniel; Mastruzzi, Massimo; Zavaleta, Diego - EconWPA - 2003
We are increasingly cognizant of the limits to large cross-country empirical studies in trying to understand in-depth a particular country reality, in ways useful for advice. At the same time, merely relying on a single country account at a particular point in time ignores the historical and...
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Does Governance Matter?Some Evidence from Indian States
Basu, Sudip Ranjan - EconWPA - 2005
This paper attempts to propose a methodology to combine different dimensions of governance indicators into a composite index. The governance index is computed as the weighted average of principal components of the standardized governance indicators, where weights are variances of successive...
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Child Labor and Fertility
Schrepler, Ramona - EconWPA - 2003
This essay analyzes the economic causes and effects of household decisions concerning fertility, education and child labor when children can supplement family income early in life and must support their parents in old age as adults. Parents, who raise and educate children for both financial and...
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Innovation, Market Structure and Economic Growth
Palma, Nuno Pedro Gonçalves - EconWPA - 2004
This paper presents a dynamic partial equilibrium model that endogenizes firms' investment decision on innovation …: product innovation causes horizontal expansion growth, and process innovation causes vertical expansion growth. Market … structure in different markets emerges as a consequence of different investment on innovation opportunities. Main variables that …
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