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The Impact of Plant-level Resource Reallocations and Technical Progress on U.S. Macroeconomic Growth
Petrin, Amil - 2011
) definition of aggregate productivity growth, which aggregates plant-level changes to changes in aggregate final demand in the … technologies, one for each 4-digit SIC code. On average we find positive aggregate productivity growth of 2.2% in this sector … for both the theoretical literature on growth and alternative indexes of aggregate productivity growth based only on …
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Productivity, Efficiency, Scale Economies and Technical Change : A New Decomposition Analysis
Nemoto, Jiro - 2005
This paper aims to examine the productivity change of the Japanese economy using the data pertaining to the 47 … prefectures during the period 1981-2000. The decomposition analysis of the Hicks-Moorsteen-Bjurek productivity index is conducted … to explore the sources of the productivity change. In summary, technical change and efficiency change are two of the most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467310
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Fuzzy Frontiers of Production : Evidence of Persistent Inefficiency in Safety Expenditures
Ichniowski, Casey - 1984
empirical finding.Three elaborations to the basic production frontier framework are developed and used to interpret the accident-productivity …
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Financial constraints and innovation : Why poor countries don't catch up
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2010
This paper examines micro-level channels of how financial development can affect macroeconomic outcomes like the level of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey...
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The World Technology Frontier
Caselli, Francesco - 2000
We define a country's technology as a triple of efficiencies: one for unskilled labor, one for skilled labor, and one for capital. We find a negative cross-country correlation between the efficiency of unskilled labor and the efficiencies of skilled labor and capital. We interpret this finding...
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Multi Product Firms, Import Competition, and the Evolution of Firm-product Technical Efficiencies
Dhyne, Emmanuel - 2017
We study how increased import competition affects the evolution of firm-product technical efficiencies in the small open economy of Belgium. We observe quarterly firm-product data at the 8-digit level on quantities sold and firm-level labor, capital, and intermediate inputs from 1997 to 2007, a...
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Reconciling Models of Diffusion and Innovation : A Theory of the Productivity Distribution and Technology Frontier
Benhabib, Jess - 2017
We study how innovation and technology diffusion interact to endogenously determine the productivity distribution and … productivity distribution. With finite support, the aggregate growth rate cannot exceed the maximum growth rate of innovators …
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Dynamic Factor Demand Models and Productivity Analysis
Nadiri, M. Ishaq - 1999
such models in analyzing the production structure, the determinants of variable and quasi-fixed factors, and productivity … growth. The paper also discusses the traditional approach to productivity analysis based on the Divisia index number …
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Firm-Level Upgrading in Developing Countries
Verhoogen, Eric - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
In principle, firms in developing countries benefit from the fact that advanced technologies and products have already been developed in industrialized countries and can simply be adopted, a process often referred to as industrial upgrading. But for many firms this advantage remains elusive....
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Estimating the Effects of R&D on Bell System Productivity : A Model of Embodied Technical Change
Gordon, Roger H. - 1985
is assumed to differ in productivity according to a parametric function of R&D effort embodied in that vintage of capital …&D expenditures at Bell Laboratories and the improvements in the productivity of specific capital inputs which are due to those R … growing over time. In addition,the rate of increase in the productivity of capital inputs has risen over time. The model fails …
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