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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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Porter and Weihrich: Two Faces of a Strategic Matrix for Developing the Portuguese Molds Industry

Leitão, João; Deodato, Carlos - EconWPA - 2005

The Portuguese producers of Molds are in its majority of small or medium dimension, competing in highly competitive international markets and using processes, which incorporate new technologies. The present study aims to identify the strategic quadrants for developing the Portuguese Molds...

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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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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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Growth Accounting for Some Selected Developing, Newly Industrialized and Developed Nations from 1966-2000: A Data Envelopment Analysis

Mathur, Somesh Kumar - EconWPA - 2004

We work out technical efficiency levels of 29 countries consisting of some selected South Asian, East Asian and EU countries using data envelopment analysis. Luxembourg has an efficiency score of one(most efficient) in all the years .Netherlands also has an efficiency score of one in...

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Banking on Change: Information systems and technologies in UK High Street Banking, 1919-1979

BÁTIZ-LAZO, Bernardo; WARDLEY, Peter - EconWPA - 2005

This paper explores the automation of the supply of financial services on the British High Street. Its aim is to provide an historical perspective to highlight the longevity of organisational change in the financial sector and to emphasise its remarkable continuity: UK clearing banks and...

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Can Skill Biased Technological Progress Have a Role in the Decline of the Savings Rate?

Chanda, Areendam - EconWPA - 2002

This paper explores the consequences of skill biased technological progress on the savings rates. The literature, both theoretical and empirical, on the causes and consequences of skill biased technological progress in the past few years has burgeoned considerably. So has the literature on...

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Obesity: An unitended consequence of taxes and the gender wage gap?

Adrian, Peralta-Alva; Porqueras, Pere Gomis- - EconWPA - 2005

We perform a dynamic general equilibrium analysis of the observed increase in the weight of the average American adult over the 1960-2005 period. Existing evidence suggests that this fifteen pound increase in weight can be attributed to the dramatic raise in the consumption of foods prepared...

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The Finding Cost of Natural Gas: Technological Change versus Resource Depletion

Cuddington, John T.; Moss, Diana L. - EconWPA - 1996

This study provides an empirical analysis of the extent to which ongoing technological change has offset the effect of ongoing depletion on the cost of finding additional reserves of natural gas. In the process, we develop a new index of technological change for exploration and development (E&D)...

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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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