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The Impact of Research and Development Tax Incentiveson Colombia's Manufacturing Sector; What Difference Do they Make?

Mercer-Blackman, Valerie - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

Do tax incentives for science and technology stimulate additional investment? We use detailed data on applications and acceptances for R&D tax incentives, a special survey, and for the first time, the science and technology module from the 2000-2002 Survey of Manufacturers database in Colombia...

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The Impact of Public Capital, Human Capital, and Knowledgeon Aggregate Output

Joutz, Frederick L.; Abdih, Yasser - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

This paper investigates the impact of public capital on private sector output by testing and estimating an aggregate production function for the U.S. economy over the postwar period augmented to include the stock of public capital as an additional factor input. We use patent applications to...

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RandD, innovation, and Economic Growth; An Empirical Analysis

Ulku, Hulya - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004

This paper investigates the main postulations of the R&D based growth models that innovation is created in the R …&D sectors and it enables sustainable economic growth, provided that there are constant returns to innovation in terms of R … the period 1981–97. The results suggest a positive relationship between per capita GDP and innovation in both OECD and non …

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Relating the Knowledge Production Function to total Factor Productivity; An Endogenous Growth Puzzle

Joutz, Frederick L.; Abdih, Yasser - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005

The knowledge production function is central to R&D-based growth models. This paper empirically investigates the knowledge production function and intertemporal spillover effects using cointegration techniques. Time-series evidence suggests there are two long-run cointegrating relationships. The...

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Trade, Growth, and Poverty; A Selective Survey

Berg, Andrew; Krueger, Anne O. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003

-level research, and case studies) supports the view that trade openness contributes greatly to growth. Moreover, trade openness does …

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Armenia; The Road to Sustained Rapid Growth-Cross-Country Evidence

Iradian, Garbis - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003

This study examines the growth determinants and the economic policy challenges that Armenia faces to sustain the rapid growth of the past two years. The paper also seeks to answer the following two questions: Why has Armenia performed relatively better than other transition economies? What are...

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Does Trade and Technology Transmission Facilitate Inequality Convergence? An inquiry Into the Role of Technology in Reducing the Poverty of Nations

Das, Gouranga Gopal - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

Based on stylized evidence showing variation of the Gini coefficient of income inequality across skill cohorts and on the rapid rise in trade in technology-intensive goods, the ripple effects of technology transmission and income inequality are explored in a global Computable General Equilibrium...

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Dynamic Gains From Trade; Evidence From South Africa

Subramanian, Arvind; Jonsson, Gunnar - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000

This paper examines the empirical relationship between trade and total factor productivity (TFP) in South Africa. It uses (i) a time series approach where trade is defined in terms of aggregate outcomes, i.e., as the share of imports plus exports in GDP, and (ii) a cross sectional approach,...

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Output Drops and the Shocks That Matter

Mauro, Paolo; Becker, Törbjörn I. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

Output drops are usually associated with major disruption for the residents of affected countries, both directly and often through ensuing, prolonged growth slowdowns. Using a century of data, we document that output drops are more frequent in countries at a lower stage of economic development....

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Growth in the Dominican Republic and Haiti; Why Has the Grass Been Greeneronone Side of Hispaniola

Jaramillo, Laura; Sancak, Cemile - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

IMF or IMF policy. Working Papers describe research in progress by the author(s) and are published to elicit comments and …

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