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Sources of the German Productivity Demise – Tracing the Effects of Industry-Level ICT Investment
Eicher, Theo; Röhn, Oliver - CESifo - 2007
) experienced negative TFP growth. This second major difference between the US and German industry performance explains Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181228
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Explaining the Size Differences of Exporter Productivity Premia: Theory and Evidence
Geishecker, Ingo; Schröder, Philipp J.H.; Sörensen, Allan - CESifo - 2014
Why is it that exporter productivity premia (EPP) differ so widely in size? We take this question to the theory and to the data. We derive the sectoral EPP in a standard heterogeneous firms trade model and apply the insights from the model to 13 years of data for all Danish manufacturing firms....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010741313
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Industrial Espionage and Productivity
Glitz, Albrecht - 2017
's foreign intelligence service to sector-specific gaps in total factor productivity (TFP) between West and East Germany. Based …-1989, we document a significant narrowing of sectoral West-to-East TFP gaps as a result of East Germany's industrial espionage … German technological frontier. Based on our findings, we estimate that the average TFP gap between West and East Germany at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012951837
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Explaining the Size Differences of Exporter Productivity Premia : Theory and Evidence
Geishecker, Ingo - 2014
Why is it that exporter productivity premia (EPP) differ so widely in size? We take this question to the theory and to the data. We derive the sectoral EPP in a standard heterogeneous firms trade model and apply the insights from the model to 13 years of data for all Danish manufacturing firms....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057657
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Cross-Country Relative Price Volatility: Effects of Market Structure
Cheung, Yin-Wong; Fujii, Eiji - CESifo - 2005
Using annual data on nine manufacturing sectors of eighteen OECD countries, the article studies the implications of market structure for cross-country relative price variability. It is found that, in accordance with predictions from a standard markup pricing model, reductions in market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005416486
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The Ifo Industry Growth Accounting Database
Röhn, Oliver; Eicher, Theo; Strobel, Thomas - CESifo - 2007
In this paper we present a new database that allows deep industry-level growth accounting from 1991–2003. The database allows for the first complete analysis of the German industry performance drivers based on the contributions of 12 asset types in 52 different industries. The industry sources...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181234
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Fiscal Policy in New EU Member States – Go East, Prudent Man!
Schneider, Ondrej; Zápal, Jan - CESifo - 2005
The European Union (EU) accepted ten new member states (NMS) in 2004. These countries, mostly former socialist countries, have had to adjust their economic policies to the EU’s standards. Perhaps most difficult has proven to be fiscal policy whereby NMS must comply with the Stability and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094350
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Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and Causation
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2009
We provide evidence that the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth reflects a causal effect of cognitive skills and supports the economic benefits of effective school policy. We develop a new common metric that allows tracking student achievement across countries, over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012765255
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The Ifo Industry Growth Accounting Database
Roehn, Oliver - 2007
In this paper we present a new database that allows deep industry-level growth accounting from 1991-2003. The database allows for the first complete analysis of the German industry performance drivers based on the contributions of 12 asset types in 52 different industries. The industry sources...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777641
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Measurement Error in Education and Growth Regressions
Portela, Miguel - 2008
The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement error. This paper analyses the effect of this measurement error on GDP regressions. There is a systematic difference in the education level between census data and observations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012774497