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Technological change: An analysis of the diffusion and implications of e-business technologies
Koellinger, Philipp - EconWPA - 2005
2002. In addition, the adoption of new e-business technologies by firms creates opportunities to conduct innovation, either …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005555995
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The contribution of business services to aggregate productivity growth
Kox, Henk L.M. - EconWPA - 2004
. The business services industry has an important role in the national innovation system and in knowledge spillovers to … other industries. The innovation contribution of business services to the rest of the economy may countervail the effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412877
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Ideas for Growth?
Maré, David. C. - EconWPA - 2004
There is much talk of the knowledge economy, and the central role of ideas and knowledge in generating economic growth. This paper provides a brief review of the economic literature on how skills/ knowledge/ ideas might contribute to higher output or higher rates of growth. Ideas are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118849
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Absorptive Capacity – One Size Fits All? A Firm-level Analysis of Absorptive Capacity for Different Kinds of Knowledge
Schmidt, Tobias - EconWPA - 2005
from research institutions. Using data from the German innovation survey we investigate how firms are able to exploit … knowledge from external partners for successful innovation activities. The estimation results show that the determinants of … absorptive capacity differ with respect to the type of knowledge absorbed for innovation activities. In particular we find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412880
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Industrial Sector Growth Accounting of Some Indian States and Union Territories: A Data Envelopment Analysis
Mathur, Somesh Kumar; Ahmed, Shahid - EconWPA - 2005
We work out technical efficiency levels of the Indian States and Union Territories using Data Envelopment Analysis from 1980-81 to 1997-98. We decompose net value added per worker growth into components attributable to technological changes (shifts in the overall production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125622
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Growth Accounting for Some Selected Developing, Newly Industrialized and Developed Nations from 1966-2000: A Data Envelopment Analysis
Mathur, Somesh Kumar - EconWPA - 2004
We work out technical efficiency levels of 29 countries consisting of some selected South Asian, East Asian and EU countries using data envelopment analysis. Luxembourg has an efficiency score of one(most efficient) in all the years .Netherlands also has an efficiency score of one in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408241
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Banking on Change: Information systems and technologies in UK High Street Banking, 1919-1979
BÁTIZ-LAZO, Bernardo; WARDLEY, Peter - EconWPA - 2005
This paper explores the automation of the supply of financial services on the British High Street. Its aim is to provide an historical perspective to highlight the longevity of organisational change in the financial sector and to emphasise its remarkable continuity: UK clearing banks and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408384
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Can Skill Biased Technological Progress Have a Role in the Decline of the Savings Rate?
Chanda, Areendam - EconWPA - 2002
This paper explores the consequences of skill biased technological progress on the savings rates. The literature, both theoretical and empirical, on the causes and consequences of skill biased technological progress in the past few years has burgeoned considerably. So has the literature on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412682
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Obesity: An unitended consequence of taxes and the gender wage gap?
Adrian, Peralta-Alva; Porqueras, Pere Gomis- - EconWPA - 2005
We perform a dynamic general equilibrium analysis of the observed increase in the weight of the average American adult over the 1960-2005 period. Existing evidence suggests that this fifteen pound increase in weight can be attributed to the dramatic raise in the consumption of foods prepared...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412810
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The Finding Cost of Natural Gas: Technological Change versus Resource Depletion
Cuddington, John T.; Moss, Diana L. - EconWPA - 1996
This study provides an empirical analysis of the extent to which ongoing technological change has offset the effect of ongoing depletion on the cost of finding additional reserves of natural gas. In the process, we develop a new index of technological change for exploration and development (E&D)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413271