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Investments in Modernization, Innovation and Gains in Productivity: Evidence from Firms in the Global Paper Industry
Ghosal, Vivek; Nair-Reichert, Usha - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper examines the impact of investments in modernization and innovation on productivity in a sample of firms in the global pulp and paper industry. This industry is important because it has traditionally accounted for significant amounts of employment and capital investment in North...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836972
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I nuovi patti di sviluppo dei distretti produttivi in Sicilia. Prime note
Schilirò, Daniele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
In Sicily there is an increased dependency of the economy and employment from politics due to the weakness of the market economy and to the lack of strong civic culture. This paper will explain what are the ‘productive districts’ in Sicily and what they represent. The present work focuses on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259096
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Production Engineering - Personnel Education for the Needs of Market Economy
Gawlik, Józef; Gawlik, Remigiusz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Production Engineering is the youngest, but fast developing scientific discipline in Poland. Its field of interests fully corresponds to the formerly created “Management and Production Engineering” study dominant. Production Engineering covers issues such as planning, designing, implementing...
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R&D and productivity in high-tech manufacturing: a comparison between Italy and Spain
Sterlacchini, Alessandro; Venturini, Francesco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Using data for twelve manufacturing industries over the period 1980-2006, we perform for Italy and Spain a dynamic panel estimation of the long-run elasticity of TFP with respect to R&D capital. The results show that in Spain high-tech industries have experienced a similar or slightly higher R&D...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008919737
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Knowledge sourcing and firm performance in an industrializing economy: The case of Taiwan (1992-2003)
Chang, Chia-Lin; Robin, Stéphane - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
We examine the impact of R&D and technology imports on firm performance in Taiwan’s manufacturing industry in a policy context of industrial upgrading. To do so, we estimate a Translog production function on two panels (covering 1992-1995 and 1997-2003), using stochastic frontier models. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008784946
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Localización de la industria manufacturera en Colombia 1990-1999
Toro González, Daniel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
This article analyzes factors which, in light of the classical industrial location theory, account for the location of manufacturing industries in Colombia. The document shows how it is that agglomeration economies represent the paramount determiner which explains the localition choices of...
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Τοπική οικονομκή ανάπτυξη, ιδιαίτερα χαρακτηριστικά πόλεων, πολιτικές ανάπτυξης και ανταγωνιστικότητα επιχειρήσεων...
Metaxas, Theodore - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
environment forces. Furthermore the paper examines the role of enterprises, while the connection between city’s distinctive …
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Firms’ Performance, Employment and Poverty during the Economic Slowdown Period in Vietnam
Le, Chau; Nguyen Viet, Cuong; Nguyen, Thao; Nguyen, Thuy; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Vietnam has achieved high economic growth and poverty reduction over the last two decades. However the country has experienced economic slowdown in recent years. GDP growth rate within the period of 2009-2012 was about 5 percent, which is considerably lower than the previous periods’ growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260198
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“Financial constraints to enterprise investments: an international analysis on financial accounts of OECD countries”
Cinquegrana, Giuseppe; De Rita, Paola - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Since the ’80s, economic literature has stressed the importance of external financing on enterprises’ investment … Petersen (1988), which was followed by ample empirical and theoretical analysis of enterprises’ information opacity, of the … constraints to enterprises’ investment decisions in different OECD countries, using as analytical tools the indicators of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260265
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Economic Development, Inequality and Climate Change in Vietnam
Dang, Vinh; Do, Trang; Nguyen, Cuong; Phung, Thu; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
From 2011 till 2013, Vietnam has been experiencing an economic slowdown and macroeconomic problems such as high inflation, bad debt from commercial banks and the inefficient operation of state-owned companies. The poverty reduction rate has slowed down and poverty incidence in remote and...
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