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On 21 March 2002 the Treasurer referred the post-2005 assistance arrangements for the automotive manufacturing sector to the Commission for inquiry and report. The Commission identified three options for the reduction of tariffs, with the Government accepting the Commission’s preference for...
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We characterize asymmetric equilibria in two-stage process innovation games and show that they are prevalent in the different models of R&D technology considered in the literature. Indeed, cooperation in R&D may be accompanied by high concentration in the product market. We show that while such...
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This study examines the effect of research and development subsidies on the private funding of R&D in France. We address this issue from the annual R&D survey over 1985-1997, which provides information about the R&D subsidies given by all the ministries to the firms having at least one full-time...
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The paper applies the evolutionary concept to an analysis of the role of intellectual property rights protection in the model of two countries North and South (and two firms) where only the Northern firm conducts innovative activity. The concept of social evolution and learning in oligopolistic...
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In this paper I evaluate the contribution of R&D investments to productivity growth. The basis for the analysis are the … production externalities. The resulting contribution of R&D to productivity growth in the US is smaller than three to five tenths …
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Productivity were the Essence of the Administrative strategy of Mrs. Indira Gandhi (Late Prime Minister of India). These approaches …
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This work attempts to shed light on the “information technology productivity paradox”. Employing a large data set of … Italian manufacturing firms we compute ICT marginal productivity across different cluster of firms and the impact of …/introduction behaviour and firm’s technological investment aptitude have any role in explaining ICT productivity. We find that low capital …
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The Malmquist productivity index has many attractive features. One is that it decomposes into a technical efficiency … bias index makes no contribution to productivity change. …
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In the Domain of Development Economics, Productivity is represented by Output to Input Ratio & Management Decisions … InputQuantum ratio also for a favourable condition. This is presented in 2.Part1:Expanded Productivity Algebraic Model Part2 …:Integrated Management Decision Algebraic Model. CONCEPTS DERIVED :- (SED=SOCIO- ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT UNITS)01.PRODUCTIVITY …
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Examines the productivity performance of the wholesale and retail trade sectors in light of their significant … contribution to Australia’s record productivity performance in the 1990s. Fundamental changes in the nature and operations of … wholesale trade, in particular, have brought marked improvements in productivity performance over the 1990s. The paper examines …
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