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the country. Our results suggest that the economic structure and productivity of southern Mexico is considerably different … that 'islands of excellence' prevail in otherwise highly inefficient and lagging states. -- Mexico ; manufacturing …
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The relationship between land investment and tenure security is usually tested in land scarce but peaceful areas. This … article examines instead the effects of land abundance and war for investment and tenure security. The paper demonstrates that … war enhances land abundance. This implies that farm size for the analysis of land investment and tenure security. The …
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differently - would a private investor consider nuclear power as an investment option in the context of a competitive power market … recent and ongoing investment projects in the Western world, i.e. Europe and the United States; cases in non-market economies …
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This work proposes a task-based methodology for the measurement of employment and investment in organisational capital …, education, and business administration. In-house investment in OC for the 2012 is measured à la Corrado, Hulten and Sichel (2009 … total employment to represent between 9.5% (Denmark) to 26% (United Kingdom), with an average of 16%. Total investment in OC …
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superior to a regime without prioritization (network neutrality) and yields higher incentives for investment in network …
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IT investment in any sectors, it does significantly improve labor productivity for firms in manufacturing and in …
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This paper examines whether exporting activity matters for firm's price cost margins. The recent literature on exporting and productivity shows that exporters on average are more efficient than nonexporters. If that is the case we may also expect them to have different mark-ups. We investigate...
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Following a brief review of the theoretical literature on the benefits and shortcomings of fiscal decentralization this paper presents an empirical analysis of the relationship between per capita economic growth and its production function determinants, on the one hand, and constructed...
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We analyze the effects of an incentive based regulatory scheme with revenue caps on the investment behaviors and …'s implementation of incentive regulation in 2009 has a negative impact on total investment, and that firms increase their investments … constraints used to determine the revenue caps influence the distribution companies' investment decisions. We also note that the …
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investment options. In order to capture the specific characteristics of natural gas production, most of these models apply a … logarithmic production cost function. However, no model has so far combined this cost function type with endogenous investment …, this is a serious shortcoming of the current literature. This paper provides a proof that combining endogenous investment …
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