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One of the important public policy issues in science and technology is to ascertain if and how firms' investments in research and development (R&D) contribute to technical progress at firm and industry levels. Griliches (1979) made a pioneering contribution to our understanding of economic...
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spillovers form Transnational Corporations presence in Uruguayan’s manufacturing sector in 1990-2000. We concluded that the … factorial productivity of the firms has a positive tendency between 1990-96, and a negative tendency between 1997-2000. The …. There are signs of vertical spillovers in 1990-96. The domestic firms that employ people with better skills have improved …
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structures, by encouraging their innovative activities, by stimulating technology spillovers, and by selecting more efficient … aggregate productivity growth. The dynamism of Asian NIEs (Newly Industrializing Economies) revealed in their export … competition, technology spillovers, and firm dynamics in Korea. This research aims to contribute to understanding the micro …
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period 1965-1990, to decompose total factor productivity growth into technical change and technical efficiency change …. Empirical results show East Asian countries led the whole world in productivity growth, mainly because their technical …
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role of productivity and its components in economic growth of developed and developing nations in addition to the … productivity indexes offered by non-frontier studies of Hall & Jones (1996) and Islam (1995) our ranking shows a somewhat more … intuitive. We also show that productivity is responsible for virtually all the differences of performance between developed and …
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We consider the issue of cross sectional aggregation in nonstationary, heterogeneous panels where each unit cointegrates. We first derive the asymptotic properties of the aggregate estimate, and a necessary and sufficient condition for cointegration to hold in the aggregate relationship. We also...
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Recent evidence based on longitudinal firm-level data suggests that within-firm productivity growth explains about 50 … percent of total factor productivity growth in the manufacturing sector while net entry effects account for about 30 percent … of total factor productivity growth. These two forces may be connected via learning by doing of young businesses. That is …
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series pattern to that of the growth of total factor productivity (TFP) in New Zealand. New Zealand’s experience in …
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We investigate the relationship between exports and productivity in the Turkish apparel and motor vehicle and parts … past export status on current productivity both with and without controlling for the export history of plants. Our results … show that the plants' prior market experience is a factor in their current productivity. The learning effects are evident …
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This paper employs a new global panel data set on innovation related variables to examine patterns of R&D investment across the development process. We find that R&D effort measured as a share of GDP rises with development at an increasing rate, but that several countries have experienced...
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