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Towards Building A New Consensus About New Zealand’s Productivity
Razzak, W A - EconWPA - 2004
There is a wide consensus that New Zealand’s productivity has been poor despite the comprehensive market …-oriented reforms of the 1980’s. This consensus is based on estimates of New Zealand’s productivity growth measured either in terms of … GDP per capita or total factor productivity (TFP). TFP is typically computed using growth accounting (i.e., calibrating a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556741
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Modelling Possible Impacts of GM Crops on Australian Trade
Stone, Susan; Matysek, Anna; Dolling, Andrew - EconWPA - 2003
been introduced. The model includes assumptions about the productivity gains of GM crops, possible consumer responses and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407855
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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...
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The Structure of Neoclassical Consumer Theory
Isaac, Alan G. - EconWPA - 1998
This paper offers an accessible introductory survey of the application of abstract choice theory to consumer theory. In the process, the paper identifires---somewhat more carefully than is usual in the literature--- the relatively small role of the rationality postulates and the relatively large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005077083
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Trends in East European Factor Productivity
Kyn, Oldrich; Kyn, Ludmila - EconWPA - 2005
rates of growth of the total factor productivity. The rate of growth of the total factor productivity was estimated as a … average annual rates of growth of the total factor productivity were very high (around 6 per cent) in the case of … of total factor productivity over time we found that Czechoslovakia, Poland and Bulgaria experienced a quite considerably …
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Production Function of Skilled and Unskilled Labour in a Model of a Non-Growing Russian Economy. - Aberdeen: ILM Conference Proceedings, October 11-12, 1999. PP.560-575.
Olenev, Nicholas - EconWPA - 2003
This paper builds a production function of skilled and unskilled labour for the economy that does not grow. The paper uses the constant elasticity of substitution production function (CES) of skilled and unskilled labour on the micro level as an important building stone. The paper obtains a...
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The technological theory of production and a method of decomposition of the rate of GDP in terms of labour and capital services
Pokrovski, Vladimir - EconWPA - 2003
It is assumed that performance of production system can be described with the three variables: amount of production equipment -- capital stock $K$ and 'consumption' of labour L and capital services S. It is shown that the production function can be specified as the known Cobb- Douglas production...
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Production Functions Estimates for Soviet Industry and Some Implications
Kyn, Oldrich; Wagener, Hans-Juergen; Hocke, Joerg - EconWPA - 2005
This study presents estimation of production functions for the Soviet industry from the 1951—1970 data. Different specifications and estimation procedures were tried. The results diverged on a wide range and this may have serious implications. The paper shows possible effects of different...
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The Effects of Life Expectancy on Fiji's Output: A Time Series Approach from 1970 to 2002
Rao, B Bhaskara; Nisha, Fozia; Prasad, Biman C - EconWPA - 2005
Compared to several cross-country studies on the determinants of growth, time series approaches are relatively few and limited in scope. However, time series studies are useful for country-specific policies. But in the recent time series works, with a few exceptions, ad hoc specifications of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412824
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Restructuring and Measurement of Efficiency in Firms in Transition
Benacek, Vladimir; Shemetilo, Dmitri; Petrov, Alexei - EconWPA - 2001
In this paper we try to explain some restructuring patterns of Czech textile and clothing industries from a microeconomic point of view. We introduce two measures of production efficiency (the technical and the allocative efficiency) and look at changes in the behaviour of enterprises. In 1994,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412948