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The Impact of Uncertainty on Investment: A Meta-Analysis
Koetse, Mark J.; Groot, Henri L.F. de; Florax, Raymond … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006
In this paper we perform a meta-analysis on empirical estimates of the impact between investment and uncertainty. Since … investment research. For example, not including factor prices in investment models may seriously affect the model outco! mes … can explain to a large extent why empirical estimates of the investment-uncertainty relationship differ. …
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Skill Intensity in Foreign Trade and Economic Growth
Woerz, Julia - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
This paper explores the link between trade structure, trade specialization and per capita incomegrowth. It is argued that industrial upgrading in export specialization patterns has a positive long-rungrowth effect, while the effect of structural change in industrial import patterns is in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256533
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Modelling Tourism Development and Long-run Economic Growth in Aruba
Ridderstaat, Jorge; Croes, Robertico; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
See also the article 'Tourism and Long-run Economic Growth in Aruba' in the <I>International Journal of Tourism Research (2014). Volume 16, issue 5, pages 472-487.<P> Tourism has over the past decades turned into a core activity for accelerated growth. The purpose of this study is to determine the...</p></i>
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Structural Differences in Economic Growth
Basturk, Nalan; Paap, Richard; Dijk, Dick van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
structural differences between the country groups mainly stem from different effects of investment, openness measures and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257397
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Forecasting Aggregate Productivity using Information from Firm-Level Data
Bartelsman, Eric J.; Wolf, Zoltan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009
This paper contributes to the productivity literature by using results from firm-level productivity studies to improve forecasts of macro-level productivity growth. The paper employs current research methods on estimating firm-level productivity to build times-series components that capture the...
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Transaction Management: Value Creation by Reducing Transaction Costs
Butter, Frank A.G. den - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010
This discussion paper led to a publication in (W.D. Nelson (Ed.)), <I>Advances in Business and Management</I> (pp. 1-32), New York: Nova Publishers, 2011. In this era of globalization we see an increase in specialization: the production chain issplit up in more and more parts and the production of...</i>
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Productivity Gains from Offshoring: an Empirical Analysis for the Netherlands
Butter, Frank A.G. den; Pattipeilohy, Christiaan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007
A major question in the globalization debate is whether outsourcing and offshoring activities are beneficial to the home country. This paper investigates the effects on productivity and trade from the perspective of transaction costs, using a recent theory on trade in tasks. A production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255886
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Trade in Financial Services: Procompetitive Effects and Growth Performance
Francois, Joseph F.; Schuknecht, Lutger - Tinbergen Instituut - 1999
In this paper we explore linkages between financial services tradeand growth. We offer aformalization of the argument that trade, through the fostering offinancial market integration,may yield important long-run effects related to increasedcompetition. The relationshipsformalized here link...
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Financial Sector Competition, Service Trade, and Growth
Francois, Joseph F.; Eschenbach, Felix - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002
We explore dynamic linkages between financial/banking sector openness, financial sector competition, and growth. We first develop an analytical model, highlighting links between long-run economic performance and services trade, through scale economies and market and cost structures in the...
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Maintenance Costs, Obsolescence, and Endogenous Growth
Berden, Koen G.; Marrewijk, Charles van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2001
investment in research and development and the growth rate of theeconomy. …
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