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China’s Economic Growth 1978-2025: What We Know Today about China’s Economic Growth Tomorrow
Holz, Carsten A. - EconWPA - 2005
Views of the future China vary widely. While some believe that the collapse of China is inevitable, others see the emergence of a new superpower that increasingly poses a threat to the U.S. This paper examines the economic growth prospects of China over the next two decades. Extrapolating past...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062447
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Does ICT Investment Matter for Growth and Labor Productivity in Transition Economies?
Piatkowski, Marcin - EconWPA - 2004
Following up on a previous paper by the same author on the contribution of ICT capital to growth and labor productivity in Poland 1995-2000, this paper extends the study to eight transition economies: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Slovakia and Slovenia. The paper shows that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005555980
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The Contribution of ICT Investment to Economic Growth and Labor Productivity in Poland 1995-2000
Piatkowski, Marcin - EconWPA - 2003
There is large evidence on a positive impact of information and communication technologies (ICT) on economic growth and productivity in a number of developed countries in the 1990’s. There are however no studies, which would estimate the contribution of ICT to growth and productivity in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556009
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China’s Economic Growth 1978-2025: What We Know Today about China’s Economic Growth Tomorrow
Holz, Carsten A - EconWPA - 2005
Views of the future China vary widely. While some believe that the collapse of China is inevitable, others see the emergence of a new superpower that increasingly poses a threat to the U.S. This paper examines the economic growth prospects of China over the next two decades. Extrapolating past...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556063
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Capital Augmenting and Labor Augmenting Approach in Measuring Contribution of Human Capital and Education to Economic Growth
Popovic, Milenko - EconWPA - 2005
In this paper an effort has been made to unveil some hidden and implicit assumptions that has been used in different models dealing with analysis and measurement of contribution of human capital to economic growth. In order to do it we started from the general production function with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556090
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Sustaining Imperfectly Credible Trade Liberalization: Do the Rate of Tariff Reduction and the Degree of Labor Mobility Matter?
Tatum, Robert C. - EconWPA - 2005
Imperfectly credible trade liberalization can lead to balance of payment deterioration and a subsequent reversal of the reform. Therefore, this paper examines whether the likelihood of policy reversal depends on the rate of tariff reduction or the degree of labor mobility. The analysis shows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125497
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Further evidence on the link between finance and growth: An international analysis of community banking and economic performance
Berger, Allen N.; Hasan, Iftekhar; Klapper, Leora F. - EconWPA - 2004
of the relative health of community banks on economic growth and investigating potential transmission mechanisms for … market shares and higher efficiency rankings for small, private, domestically owned banks are associated with better economic … performance, and that the marginal benefits of larger shares are greater when the banks are more efficient. Only mixed support is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134638
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Further evidence on the link between finance and growth: An international analysis of community banking and economic performance
Berger, Allen N.; Hasan, Iftekhar; Klapper, Leora F. - EconWPA - 2004
of the relative health of community banks on economic growth and investigating potential transmission mechanisms for … market shares and higher efficiency rankings for small, private, domestically owned banks are associated with better economic … performance, and that the marginal benefits of larger shares are greater when the banks are more efficient. Only mixed support is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561768
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I - Q Cycles
Francois, Patrick; Ellis, Huw Lloyd- - EconWPA - 2005
We develop a model of 'intrinsic' business cycles, driven by the decentralized behaviour of entrepreneurs and firms making continuous, divisible improvements in their productivity. We show how equilibrium cycles, associated with strategic delays in implementation and endogenous innovation, arise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126460
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Contesting Contestability and the Efficiency of Wages
Burke, Andrew E.; To, Theodore - EconWPA - 1997
The fundamental contribution of the paper is to contest the view that greater market contestability has non-negative effects on market performance. In a model where employees pose a threat of potential entry, we demonstrate that a reduction in barriers to entry causes no fall in industry price...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134503