Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 99
Cover Image
Welfare Effects of Tariff Reduction Formulas
Jorgensen, Jan Guldager; Schröder, Philipp J.H. - EconWPA - 2005
WTO negotiations rely on tariff reduction formulas. It has been argued that formula approaches are of increasing importance in trade talks, because of the large number of countries involved, the wider dispersion in initial tariffs (e.g. tariff peaks) and gaps between bound and applied tariff...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062606
Cover Image
Enhanced Trade Integration with Europe: Prospects of Growth and Development for Libya
Bergs, Rolf - EconWPA - 2004
The paper deals with the prospects of economic recovery and growth of Libya after the suspension of the UN sanctions. Here the risks and chances of Libya’s participation in the so-called ‘Barcelona Process’ are viewed. Based on the results of a similar study for Egypt and an empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556100
Cover Image
Intra-industry Trade Between the United States and Mexico: 1993- 1998
Clark, Don P; Jr, Thomas M Fullerton; Burdorf, Duane - EconWPA - 2004
Changes in the trade of manufactured goods between the United States and Mexico are examined during the first 5 years of the North American Free Trade Agreement implementation period. Most industries exhibit large increases in intra-industry trade. An examination of intra-industry specialization...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556500
Cover Image
Infrastructure and Growth in South Africa: Benchmarking, Productivity and Investment Needs, paper presented at Economic Society of South Africa (ESSA) Conference, Durban, 9/7-9/200...
Bogetic, Zeljko; Fedderke, Johannes - EconWPA - 2005
base (2005). Second, we establish clear empirical links between infrastructure and productivity using South African time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125863
Cover Image
Japanese Saving Rate
Chen, Kaiji; Imrohoroglu, Ayse; Imrohoroglu, Selo - EconWPA - 2005
to the data during 1961-1998. Our quantitative findings identify changes in the growth rate of total factor productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076702
Cover Image
Trends in East European Factor Productivity
Kyn, Oldrich; Kyn, Ludmila - EconWPA - 2005
rates of growth of the total factor productivity. The rate of growth of the total factor productivity was estimated as a … average annual rates of growth of the total factor productivity were very high (around 6 per cent) in the case of … of total factor productivity over time we found that Czechoslovakia, Poland and Bulgaria experienced a quite considerably …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125000
Cover Image
Measuring Total Factor Productivity: Growth Accounting for Bulgaria
Ganev, Kaloyan - EconWPA - 2005
Total factor productivity measurement enables researchers to determine the contribution of supply-side production … paper help in the identification of total factor productivity development as the main driving force of economic growth. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125694
Cover Image
Dual Economies and International Total Factor Productivity Differences
Chanda, Areendam; Dalgaard, Carl-Johan - EconWPA - 2003
This paper argues that a significant part of measured TFP differences across countries is attributable not to technological factors that affect the entire economy neutrally, but rather, to variations in the structural composition of economies. In particular, the allocation of scarce inputs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126217
Cover Image
The Relationship Between Growth and Investment
Rao, B Bhaskara - EconWPA - 2005
This paper utilizes the growth accounting framework to derive and analyze the relationship between the rate of growth of output and the ratio of investment to output. With plausible parametric assumptions this framework is used to examine the recent controversy in Fiji on investment and growth....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126307
Cover Image
Entrepreneurial Efficiency: Theory
Takii, Katsuya - EconWPA - 2004
This paper models firms' entrepreneurial ability according to their ability to predict changes in productivity (i … affects the total factor productivity (TFP) of an economy, the model can explain how entrepreneurship influences TFP. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126334