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How to Measure the Unobservable: A Panel Technique for the Analysis of TFP Convergence
Liberto, Adriana Di; Mura, Roberto; Pigliaru, Francesco - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005
This paper proposes a fixed-effect panel methodology that enables us to simultaneously take into account both TFP convergence and the traditional neoclassical-type of convergence. We analyse a sample of Italian regions between 1963 and 1993 and find strong evidence that both mechanisms were at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385411
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Development Accounting with Intermediate Goods
Grobovšek, Jan - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011
Do intermediate goods help explain relative and aggregate productivity differences across countries? Three observations … depresses aggregate productivity and increases the price ratio of final goods to services. Applying the model to data for middle … intermediate production efficiency of the US, the aggregate productivity gap between the lowest and highest income countries in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009421237
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Opportunity and Choice in Social Networks
Pin, Paolo; Franz, Silvio; Marsili, Matteo - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008
Our societies are heterogeneous in many dimensions such as census, education, religion, ethnic and cultural composition. The links between individuals - e.g. by friendship, marriage or collaboration - are not evenly distributed, but rather tend to be concentrated within the same group. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423163
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HIV/AIDS Pandemic in Africa: Trends and Challenges
Luboobi, Livingstone S.; Mugisha, Joseph Y.T. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005
Three-quarters of the world’s AIDS population lives in Sub-Saharan Africa; most have no access to lifesaving drugs, testing facilities or even basic preventative health care. One of the major factors inhibiting medical professionals in Africa from treating this disease is the inability to access...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005230916
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Kaldor-Verdoorn's Law and Increasing Returns to Scale: A Comparison Across Developed Countries
Millemaci, Emanuele; Ofria, Ferdinando - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012
determinants of the labor productivity growth for the manufacturing sector of some developed economies (Western European Countries … returns to scale. Capital growth and labor cost growth do not appear important in explaining productivity growth. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904900
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Estimating Feedback Effect in Technical Change: A Frontier Approach
Otto, Vincent M.; Kuosmanen, Timo; Ierland, Ekko C. van - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006
this feedback effect by using the technical-change component of the Malmquist productivity index. This approach can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385380
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Tourism and Development: A Recent Phenomenon Built on Old (Institutional) Roots?
Pigliaru, Francesco; Brau, Rinaldo; Liberto, Adriana Di - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010
Is tourism an opportunity for lagging countries in the elusive quest for growth (Easterly, 2002)? Recent empirical evidence suggests that the answer is a cautious yes. Aggregate cross-country data show that tourism specialization is likely to be associated with higher per capita GDP growth rates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008489588
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Total Factor Productivity Growth when Factors of Production Generate Environmental Externalities
Xeapapadeas, Anastasios; Vouvaki, Dimitra - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009
Total factor productivity growth (TFPG) has been traditionally associated with technological change. We show that when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005008027
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Factor-Augmenting Technical Change: An Empirical Assessment
Cian, Enrica De - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009
energy and capital productivity whereas technical change for labour is positively related to education expenditure. Therefore …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005012140
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Total Factor Productivity Growth and the Environment: A Case for Green Growth Accounting
Xepapadeas, Anastasios; Tzouvelekas, E.; Vouvaki, D. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007
productivity growth (TFPG) measurement and deducted from the .residual. A theoretical framework of growth accounting methodology …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005392526