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This paper investigates the relationship between private and public investment in R&D, while taking into account the … to consider the endogenous effect of R&D investment. We also distinguish between the estimated long and short run results …&D depends on the host country's human capital investment. Results indicate that foreign direct investment is a more significant …
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corruption hampers growth : public investment can be distorted in favor of specific types of spending for which rent-seeking is … rent-seeking. In equilibrium, the structure of public investment is determined by the predatory technology and the … which there is no effective corruption but the possibility of corruption still distorts the allocation of public investment …
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adjustment costs on investment. …
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. In particular we show that: (1) as predicted by evolutionary theory, inventor productivity is a positive determinant of … threshold of productivity. We examine mobility in two dimensions: from firm to firm (inter-firm) and from one technical field to … invention value, (2) inter-firm mobility is a consistently positive determinant of productivity and (3) technological mobility …
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in most competitor countries, as well as investment climate (IC) deficiencies. The empirical analysis also points out how … IC matters for firm productivity through the quality of infrastructure, the experience and education of the labor force …
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in most competitor countries, as well as investment climate (IC) deficiencies. The empirical analysis also points out how … IC matters for firm productivity through the quality of infrastructure, the experience and education of the labor force …
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Short-term increasing returns to production factors are usually found in empirical studies. We argue they can be due to omitted variables, particularly the intensity of factor utilisation. Thanks to original French firm-level data (1992-2008), we show how increasing returns to scale disappear...
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equilibrium search model incorporating wage posting and specific human capital investment, where unemployment and the distribution … of both wages and productivity are endogenous. We estimate this model using French data. Numerical simulations show that … the prevailing minimum wage allows a high production level to be reached by increasing training investment, even though …
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A semi-parametric approach is used to estimate firm propensity to exit. The unobserved individual productivity of a …
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This documents aims at bridging productivity measurement and weak sustainability in a specific data envelopment … maximize output and adjusted net saving. The indicator suggested dwell on the new growth theory with multiple equilibria …. Adjustment net saving is seen as a sustainability indicator and then the productivity indicator computed can be understood as a …
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