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Growth, structural change and technological capabilities : Latin America in a comparative perspective

Cimoli, Mario; Holland, Márcio; Porcile, Gabriel; … - 2006

Countries differ in terms of technological capabilities and complexity of production structures. According to that, countries may follow different development strategies: one based on extracting rents from abundant endowments, such as labor or natural resources, and the other focused on creating...

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Yeast vs. mushrooms : a note on Harberger's "A view of the growth process"

Napoletano, Mauro (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

negligible as compared to industry- and firm-specific causes of productivity growth. The argument is that, if growth was driven … Reduction ; Total Factor Productivity ; Absorptive Capacity …

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How provincial is your region? : Effects on labour productivity in Europe

Gambardella, Alfonso (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

This paper estimates the determinants of labour productivity in European NUTS regions during 1989-1996. Unlike previous … and employment density affect labour productivity. Our novel finding is that openness affects labour productivity as well …

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Demand and technology determinants of structural change and tertiarisation

Savona, Maria (contributor); Lorentz, André (contributor) - 2005

The paper provides fresh empirical evidence on the relative contribution of final and intermediate demand to changes in the sectoral structure of advanced economies. These latter have led, over the last three decades, to the massive growth of service sectors, most especially the business...

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A baseline model of industry evolution

Winter, Sidney G. (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

The paper analyses the properties and outcomes of competitive dynamics in industries characterized by heterogeneous firms and continuing stochastic entry. A formal analytical apparatus is developed, able to derive some generic properties of the underlying competition process combining persistent...

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Trademarks as an indicator of innovation and industrial change

Mendonça, Sandro (contributor); … - 2004

As innovation becomes an ever more central issue for the development of firms and world economies, so the need for improved assessments of innovative performance grows more urgent. This paper suggests that trademark analysis can contribute in capturing relevant aspects of innovation phenomena...

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Productivity, profitability and financial fragility : empirical evidence from Italian business firms

Bottazzi, Giulio (contributor); Secchi, Angelo (contributor) - 2007 - This version January 2007

productivity performance. The empirical distributions and the associated persistence over time are explored through a set of … external credit. We also offer an initial understanding about how profitability and productivity relate with a third dimension … profitable firms to grow faster. -- firm performance ; profitability ; productivity ; financial constraints …

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Characterizing the production process : a disaggregated analysis of Italian manufacturing firms

Bottazzi, Giulio (contributor); Grazzi, Marco (contributor); … - 2005

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Conditional nonparametric frontier models for convex and non convex technologies : a unifying approach

Daraio, Cinzia (contributor); Simar, Léopold (contributor) - 2005

The explanation of productivity differentials is very important to identify the economic conditions that create …

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ICT, skills, and organisational change : evidence from a panel of Italian manufacturing firms

Giuri, Paola (contributor); Torrisi, Salvatore (contributor) - 2006

. Our findings suggest that the productivity gains from investments in the three innovative activities are related to firm … size. -- Organizational change ; ICT investment ; skills ; human capital ; productivity ; complementarity ; SMEs …

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