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The Role of Relative Price Volatility in the Efficiency of Investment Allocation
Cavallo, Eduardo Alfredo; Izquierdo, Alejandro; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
This paper estimates the impact of relative price volatility on sector-level investment allocation using a panel of 65 countries with data for 26 manufacturing industries over the period 1985-2003. Results indicate that volatility distorts efficient investment allocation in that investment is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008461907
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Innovation, R&D Investment and Productivity in Chile
Alvarez, Roberto; Bravo-Ortega, Claudio; Navarro, Lucas - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
process innovation on productivity in the Chilean manufacturing industry during the past decade. In general, the evidence … suggests there is not a contemporaneous effect of product innovation on productivity, but there is a positive effect of process … results show the presence of lagged effects product innovation on productivity two years after innovation. Compared with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008752786
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Innovation, Research and Development Investment and Productivity in Colombian Firms
Arbelaez, Maria Angelica; Torrado, Monica Parra - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
This paper attempts to establish a formal relationship between innovation and productivity using Colombian firm … sales and Total Factor Productivity (TFP). Innovation in processes likewise improves firms` productivity and sales. Finally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009643438
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Development of a Procedure for the Construction of GEI Emission Abatement Curves Incorporating the Uncertainty Associated to the Main Mitigation Variables
Clerc, Jacques; Diaz, Manuel; Campos, Bruno - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
The general objective of the study is to develop a methodology for the preparation of greenhouse-gas abatement curves for the energy demand sector, incorporating the uncertainty associated to the variables involved in estimating the marginal abatement costs. Furthermore, this approach will be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010691618
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Regional Financial Development and Firm Growth in Peru
Moron, Eduardo; Salgado, Edgar; Seminario, Cristhian - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
This paper documents the relationship between regional financial development and firm growth in the Peruvian manufacturing sector. In order to control for mutual causality between credit availability and firm growth, industry differences in financial dependence on external funds are exploited....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010691629
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Synchronized Factories: Latin America and the Caribbean in the Era of Global Value Chains
Blyde, Juan S. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2014
The objective of this report is to examine the extent to which countries in Latin America and the Caribbean participate in global value chains and what are the drivers of such participation. Production processes have been increasingly fragmented worldwide. For example, the production of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012654111
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The Impact of National Research Funds: An Evaluation of the Chilean FONDECYT
Benavente, José Miguel; Crespi, Gustavo; Maffioli, … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2007
This paper analyzes the role of National Research Funds in promoting scientific production in emerging economies. The investigation focuses on the impact of the Chilean National Science and Technology Research Fund (FONDECYT). The analysis uses data drawn from international sources of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005529059
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Public Support to Firm-Level Innovation: An Evaluation of the FONTEC Program
Benavente, José Miguel; Crespi, Gustavo; Maffioli, … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2007
increased the sales, employment and export, it did not significantly foster productivity. In the absence of randomized …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005529066
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Institutos tecnológicos públicos en América Latina: Una reforma urgente
Bitran, Eduardo; Urrutia, Cristian M. González - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
Los Institutos Tecnológicos Públicos (ITPs) en América Latina han sufrido un deterioro significativo de sus capacidades en las últimas décadas. En la mayoría de los países están a la deriva, sin que exista una visión y misión claramente establecidas, contribuyendo a su pérdida de foco...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010653467
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Gobernanza y coordinación entre el ámbito federal y estatal en las instituciones y programas de innovación y competitividad en México
Stezano, Federico; Pérez, Ramón Padilla - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
Este trabajo se centra en el análisis de las capacidades y debilidades de los gobiernos estatales en México para ejecutar políticas propias y coordinarse con las autoridades federales, así como el efecto de la concurrencia de estas autoridades sobre la gobernanza de las políticas de...
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