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This paper proposes a theoretical framework for studying the invention of new products when demand is uncertain. In … this framework, under general conditions, the threat of ex post entry by a competitor can deter invention ex ante … operating system monopolist, by its mere presence, can deter the invention of complements, to its own detriment as well as that …
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industry in most cases, however, has displayed stagnating productivity growth, in some periods even a fall in productivity …. Does this fast-growing industry with a bad productivity record present a threat to aggregate productivity growth and, hence …. The business services industry has an important role in the national innovation system and in knowledge spillovers to …
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which the use of training and/or innovation by a workplace increases the likelihood that is has higher labour productivity … than its competitiors, and experiences high labour productivity growth. …
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Vertical integration followed by quantity competition is studied. The downstream firms simultaneously decide whether to integrate with one of the upstream suppliers. If firms are not able to observe whether the vertically integrated competitor enters the intermediate good market, they are...
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Sweden represents an archetypal welfare state economy, with extensive government safety nets. Some scholars have … policies. This paper argues rather, that the permanent loss in output following Sweden’s banking crisis in the early 1990s …
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In the financial crisis literature, it is usually argued that, contrary to the case of currency crises, building a time series index to identify banking crisis episodes is highly difficult, particularly because of the lack of reliable data on banking sector variables (non-performing loans,...
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Productivity were the Essence of the Administrative strategy of Mrs. Indira Gandhi (Late Prime Minister of India). These approaches …
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introduction). However, what really matters in explaining ICT productivity is the level of innovation the new capital embodies. In …This work attempts to shed light on the “information technology productivity paradox”. Employing a large data set of … Italian manufacturing firms we compute ICT marginal productivity across different cluster of firms and the impact of …
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The Malmquist productivity index has many attractive features. One is that it decomposes into a technical efficiency … bias index makes no contribution to productivity change. …
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In the Domain of Development Economics, Productivity is represented by Output to Input Ratio & Management Decisions … InputQuantum ratio also for a favourable condition. This is presented in 2.Part1:Expanded Productivity Algebraic Model Part2 …:Integrated Management Decision Algebraic Model. CONCEPTS DERIVED :- (SED=SOCIO- ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT UNITS)01.PRODUCTIVITY …
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