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Determinants of Total Factor Productivity in the Italian Regions

Ascari, Guido; Cosmo, Valeria Di - EconWPA - 2005

This paper investigates the determinants of TFP for Italian regions. We find strong evidence in favour of the factors commonly suggested by the theoretical literature. In particular, R&D expenditures and the number of researchers are positively related to regional TFP. Moreover, human capital is...

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Productivity Growth in China: Evidence from Chinese Provinces

Ao, Xiang; Fulginiti, Lilyan E. - EconWPA - 2005

Young (1995) estimated Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth for Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and South Korea. He reported moderate growth rates for these four regions. This means that rapid growth of GDP in these four economies is due mainly to fast increase of inputs. Young (2000) also...

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Chinese Regional Agricultural Productivity in the 1990'a

Tong, Haizhi; Fulginiti, Lilyan E. - EconWPA - 2005

A nonstochastic Malmquist Index and a stochastic frontier production function are estimated to examine agricultural productivity growth in Chinese provinces during the 1990’s. Results for both methods indicate high productivity growth in the mid 1990’s with a declining trend thereafter....

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Generalized Moments Estimation for Spatial Panel Data: Indonesian Rice Farming

Druska, Viliam; Horrace, William C. - EconWPA - 2002

We consider estimation of a panel data model where disturbances are spatially correlated in the cross-sectional dimension, based on geographic or economic proximity. When the time dimension of the data is large, spatial correlation parameters may be consistently estimated. When the time...

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A distribution dynamics approach to regional GDP convergence in reunified Germany

Falko, Juessen - EconWPA - 2005

This paper presents an empirical study of GDP per worker (and per capita) convergence across German labour market regions during 1992 to 2002 using nonparametric techniques. There is evidence for a tendency towards convergence during the observed period, i.e. regions that were less productive in...

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UNDERSTANDING THE DETERMINANTS OF ICTS DIFFUSSION IN ECOWAS

NWAOBI, GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2004

The Information and Communication technology(ICT) environment in the economic community of west african states(ECOWAS) has changed sufficiently to warrant re-conceptualization of the earlier initiatives. Notably, many new technologies have emerged, especially in the area of wireless...

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Common and idiosyncratic shocks to labor productivity across sectors and countries: Is climate relevant?

Gutierrez, Luciano - EconWPA - 2003

We use two methodologies, the least square dummy variables approach and the dynamic factor models, to decompose the labor productivity growth rate for a large sample of countries into common, i.e. global, and idiosyncratic, i.e. country, components. We find that country specific effects are much...

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

Emmanuel, DUGUET - EconWPA - 2004

We examine the contribution of incremental and radical innovations to total factor productivity (TFP) growth at the 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...

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Where Did the Trade Liberalization Drive Latin American Economy: A Cross Section Analysis

Rajagopal - EconWPA - 2005

a good measure of import competition, but trade policies alone are not sufficient to create a competitive environment in … an economy. The countries in Latin America have not had much experience with competition policies in the past. Combined … with restrictive trade policies, the absence of competition policies has often led to monopolized domestic markets. The …

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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...

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