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THE INTERNATIONALIZATION EFFORTS OF LITHUANIAN MANUFACTURING FIRMS - STRATEGY OR LUCK?
Mockaitis, Audra I.; Vaiginene, Erika; Giedraitis, Vincent - EconWPA - 2005
With the enlargement of the European Union, many Central and Eastern European (CEE) manufacturing companies have greater opportunity for internationalizing their activities. Although it is generally held that SMEs have the flexibility and ability to adapt to their environment more quickly than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561410
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The Internationalization Efforts of Lithuanian Manufacturing Firms - Strategy of Luck?
Mockaitis, Audra I.; Vaiginiene, Erika; Giedraitis, Vincent - EconWPA - 2005
With the enlargement of the European Union, many Central and Eastern European (CEE) manufacturing companies have greater opportunity for internationalizing their activities. Although it is generally held that SMEs have the flexibility and ability to adapt to their environment more quickly than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412870
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Income Diversity in Rural Lithuania: Benefits, Barriers, and Incentives
Bezemer, Dirk; Rutkauskaite, Jurgita; Zemeckis, Romualdas - EconWPA - 2003
production in Lithuania, and many farm households have accessed additional sources of income in the rural economy. In an analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062455
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Global Diseases, Global Patents and Differential Treatment in WTO Law
Sinha, Tapen; Condon, Bradly J - EconWPA - 2005
As of January 1, 2005, all developing country members of the WTO are required to implement the WTO Agreement on Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). We analyze the issue of access to patented medicine to treat global and neglected diseases in developing countries in the context of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561030
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Interpretation of Regressions with Multiple Proxies
Lubotsky, Darren; Wittenberg, Martin - EconWPA - 2001
We consider the situation in which there are multiple proxies for one unobserved explanatory variable in a linear regression and provide a procedure by which the coefficient of interest can be extracted "post hoc" from a multiple regression in which all the proxies are used simultaneously. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407980
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Total Factor Productivity Growth in Finland 1960 − 1999
Bose, Rana - EconWPA - 2005
Productivity growth (TFPG) for Finland for the years from 1960 until 1999 using a chained Fisher index. We report that over the 4 …-down in productivity growth for the 1974- 1991 period with TFPG registering a scant 0.7% average annual growth rate compared … inflation rampant in the decade of the 70s and 80s might possibly account for the productivity slump found in that period. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556385
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The Impact of R&D on the Singapore Economy:An Empirical Evaluation
Ho, Yuen Ping; Wong, Poh Kam; Toh, Mun Heng - EconWPA - 2005
that R&D investment in Singapore had a significant impact on its total factor productivity performance in the last 20 years … some way to go in catching up with the advanced nations in terms of R&D productivity. This not only means increasing the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561079
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R&D? A Small Contribution to Productivity Growth
Comin, Diego - EconWPA - 2003
In this paper I evaluate the contribution of R&D investments to productivity growth. The basis for the analysis are the … production externalities. The resulting contribution of R&D to productivity growth in the US is smaller than three to five tenths …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561080
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Dual Economies and International Total Factory Productivity Differences
Chanda, Areendam; Dalgaard, Carl-Johan - EconWPA - 2005
This paper shows that a significant part of measured total factor productivity (TFP) differences across countries is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561240
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Investment Ratio and Growth
Rao, B Bhaskara - EconWPA - 2005
In growth and development policy investment ratio is an important policy instrument. However, there is no well defined framework to determine what should be the investment ratio for a given growth target. This paper explains the potential of Solow (1956) and Solow (1957) to explain the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561245