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Cyclical and stuctural variation in resource reallocation : evidence for Europe

Bartelsman, Eric J.; López-García, Paloma; … - 2018

This paper uses cross-country micro-aggregated data on rm dynamics and productivity from the ECB CompNet database to …. Productivity enhancing reallocation generally rises in downturns but, similar to findings for the US, it did not pick up in the …

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Transport investment appraisal and the environment

Nijkamp, Peter; Ubbels, Barry; Verhoef, Erik T. - 2002

This review considers the role of environmental effects in transport investment appraisal, mainly from the perspective of cost-benefit analysis, the most widely adopted appraisal technique. Although the basic principles of CBA are straightforward, several complications are identified that may...

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Analysis of environmental costs of mobility due to urban sprawl : a modelling study on Italian cities

Travisi, Chiara M.; Camagni, Roberto; Nijkamp, Peter - 2006

A sound empirical and quantitative analysis on the relationship between different patterns of urban expansion and the environmental or social costs of mobility is rare, and the few studies available provide at best a qualitative discussion of these issues. Some recent tentative studies on the...

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The effects of market integration on pollution : an analysis of EU enlargements

Sommer, Konstantin; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Klaassen, Franc - 2022

, have lowered pollution intensities strongly; induced improvements in productivity have further reduced them; and trade …

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Spatial patterns of technology diffusion : an empirical analysis using TFP

Abreu, Maria; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Florax, Raymond J. … - 2004

In this paper we employ techniques developed in spatial econometrics to analyse spatial patterns of technology diffusion, to detect clusters and to estimate theoretical models that incorporate space explicitly. These techniques correct for misspecifications resulting from the omission of spatial...

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Identifying reduced-form relations with panel data

Vollebergh, Herman R. J.; Melenberg, Bertrand; … - 2007

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Measuring productivity dispersion

Bartelsman, Eric J.; Wolf, Zoltán - 2017

Measuring the dispersion of productivity or efficiency across firms in a market or industry is rife with methodological …

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Productivity gains from offshoring : an empirical analysis for the Netherlands

Butter, Frank A. G. den; Pattipeilohy, Christiaan - 2007 - This version: 19 November 2007

home country. This paper investigates the effects on productivity and trade from the perspective of transaction costs … suggests that the effect of offshoring manufacturing and services on total factor productivity (TFP) is positive and larger … than the effect of R&D on productivity. …

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The impact of regional absorptive capacity on spatial knowledge spillovers

Caragliu, Andrea; Nijkamp, Peter - 2008

We design a conceptual framework for linking two approaches: the literature on absorptive capacity and the literature on spatial knowledge spillovers. Regions produce new knowledge, but only part of it is efficiently adopted in the economy; the share of efficiently adopted technology depends on...

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Decoupling economic growth and energy use : an empirical cross-country analysis for 10 manufacturing sectors

Mulder, Peter; Groot, Henri L. F. de - 2004

exploring trends in energy- and labour productivity across 10 manufacturing sectors and 14 OECD countries for the period 1970 … considerably to aggregate manufacturing energy-productivity growth and, hence, to decoupling, while in other countries they partly … manufacturing labour-productivity developments. Furthermore, we find labour-productivity growth to be higher on average than energy-productivity …

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