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Cross-border Investment and Economic Integration: The Case of Guangdong Province and Hong Kong SAR
Sharif, Naubahar; Huang, Can - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008
In this paper, we undertake a comparative study of the performance of local and foreign competitors’ manufacturing firms in a FDI-recipient region—Guangdong Province, China—and analyzes the policy implications of the comparison for the advanced, FDI-outflow region—Hong Kong Special...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712109
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ICT Externalities: Evidence from cross country data
Meijers, Huub - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2007
Technologies (ICT) on economic growth and productivity at an aggregate level. It focuses on possible network effects and spillovers … emerging as externalities from investments in ICT. The existence of externalities is well described in theoretical work however … for cyclical effects and also takes external effects from non-ICT factors into account, points at considerable lags …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712162
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Structural modernization and development traps : an empirical approach
Lavopa A.; Szirmai A. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014
In this paper we analyse economic development through the lenses of a newly developed index the structural modernization index. This index combines two dimensions that have been widely invoked as prime drivers of economic development namely, structural change and technological catch up. For each...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011167035
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Measuring the Returns to R&D
Hall, Bronwyn H.; Mairesse, Jacques; Mohnen, Pierre - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2010
We review the econometric literature on measuring the returns to R&D. The theoretical frameworks that have been used are outlined, followed by an extensive discussion of measurement and econometric issues that arise when estimating the models. We then provide a series of tables summarizing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712138
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Innovation and productivity
Hall, Bronwyn H. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011
What do we know about the relationship between innovation and productivity among firms? The workhorse model of this relationship is presented and the implications of analysis using this model and the usually available data on product and process innovation are derived. The recent empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712167
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The impact of innovation activities on productivity and firm growth: evidence from Brazil
Goedhuys, Micheline - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2007
clients, human capital development, ICT usage, product innovation and learning by exporting, with an R&D effect only in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712090
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Foreign direct investment and firm level productivity - A panel data analysis
Gachino, Geoffrey - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2007
This paper uses panel data to examine the effect of foreign presence on firm level productivity in the Kenyan manufacturing industry employing "traditional" and "recent" methodologies both based on production function framework. A detailed comparative behaviour between foreign and local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712204
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Using Innovation Surveys for Econometric Analysis
Mohnen, Pierre; Mairesse, Jacques - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2010
After presenting the history, the evolution and the content of innovation surveys, we discuss the characteristics of the data they contain and the challenge they pose to the analyst and the econometrician. We document the two uses that have been made of these data: the construction of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856299
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Minding Weber more than ever? The impacts of State Capacity and Bureaucratic Autonomy on development goals
Cingolani, Luciana; Thomsson, Kaj; de Crombrugghe, Denis - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013
The notion of state capacity has attracted renewed interest over the last few years, in particular in the study of violent conflict. Yet, state capacity is conceived differently depending on whether the interest lies in the state's power to discourage violent conflict, in its ability to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712302
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Exploring the panel components of the Institutional Profiles Database (IPD)
Cingolani, Luciana; Crombrugghe, Denis de - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012
The Institutional Profiles Database (IPD) produced by the Agence Francaise de Developpement (AFD) has been carried out in 2001, 2006 and 2009, and a new wave is planned for 2012. Although the structure of the surveys varies greatly between 2006 and 2009, the similarity of a substantial...
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