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The Impact of Pollution Abatement Investment on Productivity Change : AnEmpirical Comparison of the U.S., Germany, and Canada

Conrad, Klaus - 1985

and Germany, and thereby assess the impact of increased pollution abatement capital regulation on productivity growth. Our …

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R&D, Production Structure, and Productivity Growth in the U.S., Japaneseand German Manufacturing Sectors

Mohnen, Pierre A. - 1984

.S., Japan and Germany. A dynamic factor demand model with two variable inputs (labor and energy)and two quasi-fixed inputs …

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Innovation and Productivity across Four European Countries

Griffith, Rachel - 2006

This paper compares the role innovation plays in productivity across the four European countries France, Germany, Spain …

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Catching-Up to Foreign Technology? Evidence on the "Veblen-Gerschenkron" Effect of Foreign Investments

Peri, Giovanni - 2004

The presence of foreign multinational enterprises may benefit local economies. In particular, highly productive foreign-owned firms may promote technological catch-up of local firms. Such channel of spillovers is defined as "Veblen-Geschenkron" effect of Foreign Direct Investments and is...

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The Link Between Aggregate and Micro Productivity Growth : Evidence from Retail Trade

Foster, Lucia - 2002

Understanding the nature and magnitude of resource reallocation, particularly as it relates to productivity growth, is important both because it affects how we model and interpret aggregate productivity dynamics, and also because market structure and institutions may affect the reallocation's...

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From Socialist Showcase to Mezzogiorno? Lessons on the Role of Technical Change from East Germany's Post-World War II Growth Performance

Keller, Wolfgang - 1997

explaining the relative East Germany-West Germany performance during the post-World War II era. We argue that previous work was … prospects of catching up with West Germany during the post-reunification era. We show, first, that the rates of technical change … account for the fact that East Germany was not the socialist showcase for which it was frequently taken before German …

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Engines of Growth : Domestic and Foreign Sources of Innovation

Eaton, Jonathan - 1995

We examine productivity growth since World War II in the five leading research economies: West Germany, France, the …

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Productivity and Machinery Investment : A Long Run Look 1870-1980

De Long, J. Bradford - 1991

Over the past century the long-run growth of six economies shows a strong association between investment in machinery and economic growth that holds both within and across nations and periods. A similar strong association holds for the post-world War II period for a broader cross section of...

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CEO Behavior and Firm Performance

Bandiera, Oriana - 2017

We measure the behavior of 1,114 CEOs in six countries parsing granular CEO diary data through an unsupervised machine learning algorithm. The algorithm uncovers two distinct behavioral types: "leaders" and "managers". Leaders focus on multi-function, high-level meetings, while managers focus on...

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Management Practices, Workforce Selection and Productivity

Bender, Stefan - 2016

and firm-level productivity in Germany. In our preferred TFP estimates only a small fraction of this correlation is …

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