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European Productivity, Innovation and Competitiveness : The Case of Italy
Tiffin, Andrew - 2014
offers a more comprehensive assessment of Italian competitiveness, focusing on the role of innovation and the evolution of …
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The impact of environmental policy on innovation in clean technologies
Eugster, Johannes - 2021
This paper studies the effect of climate change mitigating policies on innovation in clean energy technologies. Results … significant contribution to the increase in clean innovation. These effects generally materialized quickly, within 2 to 3 years of … at electricity innovation in particular, the paper finds that the estimated effect on total innovation is positive on net …
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The Dynamics of Product Quality and International Competitiveness
Mody, Ashoka - 2007
Despite the appreciation of the exchange rate, the eight Central and Eastern European countries (the CEE-8) that entered the European Union in May 2004 have achieved a decade of impressive export growth, expanding significantly their shares of world markets. Does this mean that the real exchange...
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Euro area export performance and competitiveness
Bayoumi, Tamim A.; Harmsen, Richard; Turunen, Jarkko - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009424786
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Euro Area Export Performance and Competitiveness
Turunen, Jarkko - 2011
Concerns about export growth within the euro area peripheral countries due to a lack of competitiveness within the euro area are a key policy issue. Our analysis suggests that: (i) Long-term price elasticities for intra-euro area exports are at least double those for extra-euro area exports, so...
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Real Exchange Rates and Competitiveness : A Clarification of Concepts, and Some Measurements for Europe
Lipschitz, Leslie - 1991
This paper examines indicators of competitiveness. It analyzes the conceptual foundations of conventional measures of the real exchange rate and finds that inferences about competitiveness from these indicators require strong, and in many cases implausible, assumptions. Based on this analysis...
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The structural determinants of the labor share in Europe
Dimova, Dilyana - 2019
The labor share in Europe has been on a downward trend. This paper finds that the decline is concentrated in manufacture and among low- to mid-skilled workers. The shifting nature of employment away from full-time jobs and a rollback of employment protection, unemployment benefits and...
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The return of the policy that shall not be named : principles of industrial policy
Chérif, Réda; Hasanov, Fuad - 2019
Industrial policy is tainted with bad reputation among policymakers and academics and is often viewed as the road to perdition for developing economies. Yet the success of the Asian Miracles with industrial policy stands as an uncomfortable story that many ignore or claim it cannot be...
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Liberating Supply-Fiscal Policy and Technological innovation in a Multicountry Model
Laxton, Douglas - 1998
This paper examines how endogenizing technological progress in a multicountry macroeconometric model affects the analysis of fiscal policies. It uses an expanded version of the IMF’s multicountry model, MULTIMOD, in which total factor productivity (TFP) is endogenized as a function of domestic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403417
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Institutions, innovations, and Growth
Xu, Chenggang - 1999
The fundamental importance of economic institutions for economic growth through their impact on technological change has been argued, reconfirmed by recent empirical studies, but not examined theoretically. This paper tries to fill that gap. In the model proposed, economic growth is affected by...
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