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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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Transforming Global Information and Communication Markets: The Political Economy of Innovation

Cowhey, Peter F.; Aronson, Jonathan D. - The MIT Press

Innovation in information and communication technology (ICT) fuels the growth of the global economy. How ICT markets … innovation. For example, in the 1980s and the 1990s a revolution in communication policy (the introduction of sweeping … innovation and economic growth require new approaches in global governance that will reconcile diverse interests and enable …

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Technology and the New Economy

Bai, Chong-En (contributor); Yuen, Chi-Wa (contributor) - The MIT Press

between innovation and the stock market value of the innovating firm; competition policy; demand factors as determinants of … growth; institutional aspects of the innovation process; and the effectiveness of monetary policy in stabilizing the economy. …

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Innovation height, spillovers and TFP growth at the firm level: Evidence from French manufacturing

Emmanuel, DUGUET - EconWPA - 2004

firm level. The first part of our analysis is dedicated to the determinants of innovation and reveals two different … innovation regimes. On the one hand, radical innovations rely strongly on firm-level spillovers, including property rights, and … innovation height matters. We also find evidence that TFP growth is better represented by an upward shift of the production …

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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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Economic Prosperity Recaptured: The Finnish Path from Crisis to Rapid Growth

Honkapohja, Seppo; Koskela, Erkki A.; Leibfritz, Willi; … - The MIT Press

Many countries have experienced major economic changes since the mid-1980s as a result of the deregulation and liberalization of national financial systems—two key aspects of globalization—with some experiencing boom and bust in rapid succession. The small Northern European country of...

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Institutions and Norms in Economic Development

Gradstein, Mark (contributor); Konrad, Kai A. (contributor) - The MIT Press

Recent decades have seen almost unprecedented economic growth in income per capita around the world. Yet this extraordinary overall performance masks a wide variation in growth rates across different countries, with persistent underdevelopment in some parts of the world. This disparity...

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Africa's Turn?

Miguel, Edward - The MIT Press

By the end of the twentieth century, sub-Saharan Africa had experienced twenty-five years of economic and political disaster. While "economic miracles" in China and India raised hundreds of millions from extreme poverty, Africa seemed to have been overtaken by violent conflict and mass...

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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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