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Measuring Total Factor Productivity: Growth Accounting for Bulgaria
Ganev, Kaloyan - EconWPA - 2005
Total factor productivity measurement enables researchers to determine the contribution of supply-side production factors to economic growth. For Bulgaria, which is a transition economy, it is difficult to construct a production function with stable parameters, mostly because there are atypical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125694
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Another look at the inflation-productivity trade-off
Bitros, Georgios; Panas, Epaminondas - EconWPA - 2005
Our aim in this paper is to test the robustness of the relation between total factor productivity growth and inflation to the specification of the model adopted for its identification. In doing so we estimate a generalized Box-Box cost function using data from the two-digit Standard Industrial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412823
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The Impact of R&D on the Singapore Economy:An Empirical Evaluation
Ho, Yuen Ping; Wong, Poh Kam; Toh, Mun Heng - EconWPA - 2005
Much of the literature on the impact of R&D on economic performance is founded on the advanced countries, where the intensity of R&D expenditure has been relatively high and stable for many years. In this paper, we provide empirical estimates of the impact of R&D on the economic growth of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561079
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Trade Liberalization and Industrial Pollution in Mexico: Lessons for the FTAA"
Gallagher, Kevin - EconWPA - 2001
As the barriers to hemispheric trade and integration are lowered, it will be asked whether we will we hear the "giant sucking sound" of poorer nations luring U.S. and Canadian firms south to take advantage of low wages and lax environmental regulations? Or, will Latin American nations passively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062608
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"Getting the Prices Wrong: The Limits of Market-Based Environmental Policy."
Ackerman, Frank; Gallagher, Kevin - EconWPA - 2001
Market based policies are fast becoming the recommended policy panacea for all the world’s environmental problems. Implicit in such recommendations is the theory that free markets, adjusted for externalities, can always create an “efficient” allocation of society’s resources. As a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556082
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China and the Geopolitics of Oil in the Asian Pacific Region
Bustelo, Pablo - EconWPA - 2005
China’s growing demand for oil is significantly changing the international geopolitics of energy, especially in the … East Asian economies (China, Japan and South Korea) is also a possibility. This document first of all presents an overview … of China’s energy sector, emphasising the strong growth in its energy demand to date and its potential for future growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118931
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Finding a path in the sustainability jungle. A framework for corporate action.
Seelos, Christian - EconWPA - 2005
Collective concerns about sustainable development and proposals about how to achieve sustainability have produced a … sustainability; and yet the lack of clear definitions has left a vacuum of corporate guidance. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR …) has become a synonym for corporate action towards sustainability, but companies continue to struggle to understand how to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062681
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Wertschaffendes Umweltmanagement. Keine Nachhaltigkeit ohne ökonomischen Erfolg. Kein ökonomischer Erfolg ohne Nachhaltigkeit
Figge, Frank - EconWPA - 2004
Die Studie „Wertschaffendes Umweltmanagement“ betrachtet den Zusammenhang zwischen Umweltaspekten und Unternehmenswert. Hierbei bezieht sie erstmals zwei unterschiedliche, sich ergänzende Bewertungsverfahren ein: Sie nimmt erstens das Konzept des Environmental Shareholder Value auf und...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407755
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Impacts of Native Vegetation and Biodiversity Regulations
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2004
Australian, state and territory regimes came under review for the Commission’s inquiry into native vegetation and biodiversity regulations. The Commission’s preliminary findings were released for public comment in December 2003. It found that the cost of farm regulations could be reduced if...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556186
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Japanese Saving Rate
Chen, Kaiji; Imrohoroglu, Ayse; Imrohoroglu, Selo - EconWPA - 2005
Japanese and U.S. saving rates have been significantly different over the last forty years. Can a standard growth model explain this difference? The answer is yes. Our results indicate that both an infinite horizon, complete markets setup and an overlapping generations model with incomplete...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076702