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Productivity Growth, Technological Convergence, R and D, Trade, and Labor Markets : Evidence from the French Manufacturing Sector
Khan, Tehmina S. - 2006
Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. THEORETICAL LITERATURE AND EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE -- III. THEORETICAL MODEL -- IV. DATA SOURCES AND VARIABLE CONSTRUCTION -- V. ESTIMATION METHODOLOGY AND RESULTS -- VI. CONCLUSIONS -- APPENDIXES
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012682183
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Ukraine : The Cost of Weak Institutions
Tiffin, Andrew - 2006
Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. EXPLAINING DIFFERENCES IN INCOME -- III. EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS -- IV. RESULTS -- V. IMPLICATIONS AND DISCUSSION -- VI. CAVEATS -- VII. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012691120
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Benchmarking Infrastructure Using Public Investment Efficiency Frontiers
Kapsoli, Javier - 2023
With limited financing options, increasing investment efficiency will be a critical avenue to building infrastructure for many countries, particularly in the context of post-pandemic recovery and rising debt emanating from higher energy costs and other pressures. Estimating investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015059445
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Economic Growth and Total Factor Productivity in Niger.
Fontaine, Thomson - 2006
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Production Technology, Market Power, and the Decline of the Labor Share
Velasquez, Agustin - 2023
The labor share has been declining in the United States, and especially so in manufacturing. This paper investigates the role of capital accumulation and market power in explaining this decline. I first estimate the production function of 21 manufacturing sectors along time series and including...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015059688
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Does Technological Diffusion Explain Australia's Productivity Performance?
Tressel, Thierry - 2008
-factor productivity (MFP) in a panel of industries in 15 OECD countries over the period 1980 to 2003, with a special focus on Australia … productivity best practices over the past 16 years, and have benefited from the diffusion of Information and Communication …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677560
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Tales From Two Neighbors; Productivity Growth in Canada and the United States
Cerisola, Martin D.; Chan-Lau, Jorge A. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000
This paper assesses productivity trends in Canada vis-a-vis the United States from two perspectives. The first one is … based on estimates of total factor productivity. The second one decomposes productivity growth into two sources: investment … underlying cause of the pickup in productivity in Canada and the narrowing of the productivity gap with the United States. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248234
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Government Size and Output Volatility : Should We Forsake Automatic Stabilization?
Pisani-Ferry, Jean - 2008
The paper takes stock of the debate on the positive link between output volatility and the size of government-which reflects automatic stabilizers. After a survey of the literature, we show that the contribution of automatic stabilizers to output stability may have disappeared since the 1990s....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014409031
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Public Debt and Real GDP: Revisiting the Impact
de Soyres, Constance - 2022
This paper provides new empirical evidence of the impact of an unanticipated change in public debt on real GDP. Using public debt forecast errors, we identify exogenous changes in public debt to assess the impact of a change in the debt to GDP ratio on real GDP. By analyzing data on gross public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015060462
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Public expenditure in the Slovak Republic : composition and technical efficiency
Grigoli, Francesco - 2012
Good practice suggests that budget allocations should reflect spending priorities and that spending should provide cost-effective delivery of public goods and services. This paper analyzes the composition of public expenditure in the Slovak Republic. It also assesses the relative efficiency of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009621024