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Elasticity of substitution and technical progress: Is there a misspecification problem?

Saltari, Enrico; Federici, Daniela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

In Saltari et al. (2012, 2013) we estimated a dynamic model of the Italian economy. The main result of those papers is that the weakness of the Italian economy in the last two decades is due to the total factor productivity slowdown. In those models the information and communication technology...

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Elasticity of substitution and the slowdown of the Italian productivity

Saltari, Enrico; Federici, Daniela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

In Saltari et al. (2012, 2013) we estimated a dynamic model of the Italian economy. The main result of those papers is that the weakness of the Italian economy in the last two decades has been the total factor productivity slowdown. The aim of this paper is to investigate the roots of this...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109909

Elasticity of substitution and the slowdown of the Italian productivity

Saltari, Enrico; Federici, Daniela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The aim of this paper is to investigate the roots of the Italian total factor productivity slowdown. The analysis focusses on the specific pattern of technical progress in determining the TFP dynamics. This analysis can not be done with the Cobb-Douglas technology but requires the employ of a...

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Islamic Finance: Debt versus equity An empirical Issue

Hasan, Zubair - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The current financial turmoil has led many writers in the area of Islamic finance to revive an old edict in Islamic finance – no risk, no gain. I have discussed this axiom in my earlier writings and have not come across anything in recent advocacy of its proponents that could make me change my...

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Novas Formas de Organização do Trabalho nas Micro e Pequenas Empresas

Santos, Miguel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The implementation of new forms of organization of the work (NFWO) has been recurrently applied in the medium and large corporations, especially those whose activity is centered in traditional industrial sectors. With virtues and inconvenients the NFWO seems to be apparently to be kept out of...

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Managerial spans, industry tasks and ICT: evidence from the U.S.

Westling, Tatu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The knowledge theoretic view of organization of production postulates that ICT, tasks and hierarchies intertwine … utilization narrows organizations yet CT expands middle management. Second, industry tasks govern organizational outcomes …. Cognitive tasks flatten and technical/physical tasks narrow hierarchies. Third, the descriptive evidence suggests that …

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Elasticity of Factor Substitution and Capital Formation in a Two-Sector Economy

Mino, Kazuo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper explores the relationship between factor substitution in production and the steady-sate level of capital stock in a growing economy. Unlike the foregoing studies on this topic that have exclusively utilized one-sector growth models, we consider a two-sector economy where investment...

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Declining Predation during Development: a Feedback Process

Bethencourt, Carlos; Perera-Tallo, Fernando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Empirical evidence suggests that poorer countries have larger portions of predation. We formulate a neoclassical growth model in which agents devote time either to produce or predate. When the elasticity of substitution between labor and capital is lower than one, the labor share rises with...

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Income distribution, turnover speed and profit rate in Japan, Chile, Netherlands and United States

Maito, Esteban Ezequiel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper analyzes the valorization process in Chile, Japan, Netherlands and United States, estimating advanced constant and variable capital, turnover speed, capital composition and profit rate on total advanced capital. Furthermore, it analyzes the role of turnover speed in the valorization...

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Labor share, informal sector and development

Maarek, Paul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper aims to understand the pattern of the labor share of income during the development process. We highlight a U-shapped relationship between development and the labor share. Our theory emphasizes the interplay between firms'monopsony power and the size of the informal sector when the...

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