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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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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 …

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Economic Growth and the Financial Economics of Capital Accumulation under Shifting Technological Change

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich S; Newcomb, Richard T. - EconWPA - 2004

This paper develops a simple and practical framework for characterizing (long-run) economic growth and fluid capital accumulation under shifting technological change. The framework specifies a technological change that depends on exogenous and endogenous factors as well as the interaction...

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New Capital Estimates for China

Holz, Carsten A - EconWPA - 2005

Data on physical capital are an indispensable part of economic growth and efficiency studies. In the case of China, economy-wide fixed asset series are usually derived by aggregating gross fixed capital formation (net of depreciation) over time, and sectoral/ownership-specific series by...

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Solow and the Native Americans: Technological Residuals and the Economic Performance of U.S. Native American Economies

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich - EconWPA - 2005

This paper decomposes the large regression residuals of income across 84 U.S. Native American economies (USNAEs) into Solow and Solow-like parts. Decomposition is accomplished algebraically. The calculations find a weak to negative correlation between income and Solow residuals, and a strong...

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New Capital Estimates for China

Holz, Carsten A. - EconWPA - 2005

Data on physical capital are an indispensable part of economic growth and efficiency studies. In the case of China, fixed asset time series are usually derived either by aggregating gross fixed capital formation data over time, net of depreciation, or by correcting the limited official fixed...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556078

RESOURCE INTRA-ACTIONS AND INTER-ACTIONS: IMPLICATIONS FOR TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE AND ECONOMIC GROWTH

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich - EconWPA - 2005

W. Arthur Lewis’s distinction between factors and forces of production, and Paul Romer’s insightful identification of the poverty of objects and the lack of ideas, as central to economic growth rate differences across economies, have enriched economic growth theory. However, both object-...

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Apparent Solow- and Solow-like Technological Residuals and the Economic Performance of U.S. Native American Economies

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich - EconWPA - 2004

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

Gutierrez, Luciano - EconWPA - 2003

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 more important than common effects in explaining labor productivity … gap in labor productivity between the two climatic zones, policy should be targeted on developing technologies for …

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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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