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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 …

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Market Information and Price Instability : An Insight into Vegetable Markets in Senegal

David-Benz, Hélène; Wade, Idrissa; Egg, Johny - EconWPA - 2005

Market gardening has been increasing fast in Senegal. But farmers face high marketing risks: daily price fluctuations exceed an average 20% for some products, seasonality is strong, anticipation based on prices leads to cyclic movements. Farmers and market operators have found various forms of...

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Responsiveness of Demand for Irrigation Water: A Focus on the Southern Murray-Darling Basin

Appels, D.; Douglas, R.; Dwyer, G. - EconWPA - 2005

horticulture — to gain a greater understanding of the value that farmers place on water as an input. The paper provides detail …

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Industries, land use and water quality in the Great Barrier Reef Catchment

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2003

In August 2002, the Commission was asked to look at the economic and social importance of the different industries in the Great Barrier Reef and its catchment. The Commission also would evaluate the costs and benefits of actions to address declining water quality which currently threatens the...

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Technological Developments and their Effects on World Trade: Any Implications for Governments?

Kibritcioglu, Aykut - EconWPA - 2001

This paper summarizes new developments in world trade, technological changes worldwide and their implications for recent theoretical studies in economics. After defining the economic globalization and schematizing its relations with international trade, economic growth and technological change,...

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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 …

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CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE & PRODUCTIVE KNOWLEDGE (Technology)

Gürak, H. - EconWPA - 2005

Capitalism’s inherent feature is “destructive creation”, said Marx. Decades later, in a similar fashion, Schumpeter stated that “Capitalist system incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure FROM WITHIN”. What are those dynamic forces causing the incessant changes in an economy?...

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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 - 2005

.Netherlands also has an efficiency score of one in 1966,1971,1976 and 1981.Japan,UK,Belgium,Ireland,Indonesia,Spain and Germany …

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“Winners take all competition”, creative destruction and stock market bubble

Boucher, Christophe - EconWPA - 2003

From the model of Hobijn and Jovanovic (2001), we modelize a technological shock with uncertainty. We assume that this technological shock appears in the shape of new firms. Only a part of these firms will be productive. Uncertainty relates to the identification of the viable firms. This...

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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...

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