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This paper addresses the question of sectoral specialisation mechanisms and effects on growth rate differences … providing an alternative approach to endogenous growth processes. The framework we choose draws on the Kaldorian cumulative … causation approach to growth and the evolutionary modelling of technical change and industrial dynamics. The framework developed …
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structure, innovation and firm size 98 -- 7 Employment growth in metropolitan areas 115 -- 8 Employment, wages and R …This new and original book by Zoltan Acs explores the relationship between industrial innovation and economic growth at … the growth of cities by the use of endogenous growth theory …
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Knowledge, Technological Catch-up and Economic Growth investigates the relationship between knowledge diffusion and … economic growth. Using a broad definition of knowledge - encompassing technology, production skills, know-how and firm … growth. Mark Rogers uses both neoclassical and endogenous growth models to construct testable hypotheses in order to gauge …
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innovative book, Frank Hettich uses dynamic modelling to study the interactions between economic growth, environmental policy and … tax reform. He incorporates pollution and abatement technologies into different endogenous growth models that take into … economic growth? * does environmental taxation provide an efficient source of revenue for governments? * how will higher …
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The paper presents a model of endogenous growth in which firms are modeled as boundedly-rational, locally interacting … self-sustained growth. Then, we study the trade-off between individual rationality and collective outcomes by providing an … example in which more rational agents systematically perform worse than less rational ones. -- Innovation ; Endogenous Growth …
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Indirect taxes have become an increasingly important revenue-raising tool for governments in developed countries. In this book, John Creedy applies his wealth of experience and expertise to the analysis of indirect taxes and, in particular, concentrates on the modelling of indirect tax reform...
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Transport pricing is high on the political agenda throughout the world, but as the authors illustrate, governments seeking to implement this often face challenging questions and significant barriers. The associated policy and research questions cannot always be addressed adequately from a...
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The prospective WTO Millennium Round of negotiations will highlight critical economic issues regarding the application and implementation of the WTO rules to international trade in goods and services. In this book, a distinguished group of academic experts considers the agenda and areas of...
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This book provides one of the first interdisciplinary reviews of the relationship between services, globalisation and trade liberalisation as we enter the twenty-first century. Written by academics and policymakers, it contains a detailed analysis of the characteristics of service trade and of...
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