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Remanufacturing
Bernard, Sophie - HAL - 2011
This paper presents a theoretical model of remanufacturing where a duopoly of original manufacturers produces a component of a final good. The specific component that needs to be replaced during the lifetime of the final good creates a secondary market where independent remanufacturers enter the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010605341
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Remanufacturing
Bernard, Sophie - HAL - 2011
This paper presents a theoretical model of remanufacturing where a duopoly of original manufacturers produces a component of a final good. The specific component that needs to be replaced during the lifetime of the final good creates a secondary market where independent remanufacturers enter the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010635128
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Productivity
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 Intangible
 Assets
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 Evidence
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 French
 Plants
Autant-Bernard, Corinne; Guironnet, Jean-Pascal; … - HAL - 2010
This paper investigates the effect of inter-firm and intra-firm spillovers on the productivity of firms, using French data. The Luenberger Productivity Indicator (LPI) is used to estimate the productivity and to break it down into several components (e.g. efficiency, biased technical progress,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008789555
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Are Technoparks High Tech Fantasies? Lessons from the Tunisian Experience
Youssef, Adel Ben; Elaheebocus, Nawsheen; M'Henni, Hatem; … - HAL - 2012
and emerging economies using the example of Tunisia. This article is based on a thorough desk review and informal … interviews with TP entrepreneurs and managers in Tunisia. Setting up "ex-nihilo" ten TPs in Tunisia in the mid-1990s was a … the first Mediterranean country to enter in a free trade area with the EU in 1995, Tunisia needed to boost its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933136
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Wages and On-the-Job Training in Tunisia
Muller, Christophe; Nordman, Christophe J. - HAL - 2012
information. This is important because training costs may be a major obstacle to intra-firm human capital accumulation in Tunisia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933883
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Testing for Separation in Agricultural Household Models and Unobservable Household-Specific Effects
Arcand, Jean-Louis; D'Hombres, Béatrice - HAL - 2011
When market structure is complete, factor demands by households will be independent of their characteristics, and households will take their production decisions as if they were profit-maximizing firms. This observation constitutes the basis for one of the most popular empirical tests for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805103
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Les enjeux du développement et de la gestion du gaz naturel dans les villes tunisiennes : cas de l'agglomération de Sfax
Bolzon, Hugo - HAL - 2012
Ce mémoire vient questionner l'accès à l'énergie en Tunisie par le cas du développement du réseau de gaz naturel dans l'agglomération sfaxienne. À la croisée de thématiques comme les services urbains en réseau ou encore la ville durable dans les pays arabes, l'enjeu est ici d'analyser...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010898773
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Total Factor Productivity and Technical Efficiency of Indian Manufacturing: The Role of Infrastructure and Information & Communication Technology
Mitra, Arup; Sharma, Chandan; Veganzones, Marie-Ange - HAL - 2011
Drawing on a recent dataset of the Indian manufacturing industry for 1994 to 2008, this paper shows for eight sectors that core infrastructure and Information & Communication Technology (ICT) matter for Total Factor Productivity (TFP) and Technical Efficiency (TE).In the analysis, we use a range...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009644165
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When Does a Developing Country Use New Technologies?
Bruno, Olivier; Van, Cuong Le; Masquin, Benoît - HAL - 2009
We develop a model of optimal pattern of economic development that is first rooted in physical capital accumulation and then in technical progress. We study an economy where capital accumulation and innovative activity take place within a two sector model. The first sector produces a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750459
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Potential output growth in several industrialised countries: a comparison
Cahn, Christophe; Saint-Guilhem, Arthur - HAL - 2008
In this paper, we present international comparisons of potential output growth among several economies -Canada, the euro area, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States- for the period 1991-2004, for which we construct consistent and homogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739141