The strategies of rent appropriation and market structure are inter- dependent. How firms use patents depends upon … leaders combined patents and secrecy to deter entry. Patents were also used to within cartels to organize technology licensing …. The role of patents changed in the less concentrated post war markets. In bulk organic chemicals and petrochemicals, even …

Our aim in this paper is threefold. First, to test the robustness of the relation between total factor productivity … acceleration of inflation from 1964- 1972 to 1973-1980 reduced total factor productiv-ity growth in a way that was both … our surprise, we find that the inflation-productivity trade-off prevails even in the long run. And, fi-nally, regarding …

infers that, all nations, irrespective their level of development, should evaluate Productivity/Management Decisions with …

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 …

outlook. An Algebraic Model of the author infers that Productivity of the assisted nations should be with reference to their …