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productivity and that they impact the degree of R&D spillovers …
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The IMF Working Papers series is designed to make IMF staff research available to a wide audience. Almost 300 Working Papers are released each year, covering a wide range of theoretical and analytical topics, including balance of payments, monetary and fiscal issues, global liquidity, and...
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diffusion this is insufficient to avoid catastrophic climate change. But when innovation can diffuse overseas, long … energy, and later by innovation induced by research subsidies. Green production subsidies are ineffective because they … undermine incentives for innovation …
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-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 …''s productivity performance and adoption of ICTs …
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chapter discusses both exogenous and endogenous factors behind the disappointing productivity growth in the Netherlands and …Although GDP growth in the Netherlands has recently been stronger than in peer countries, the main contributor has been … the growth in labor. If GDP is divided by labor, productivity growth appears to have been slower than in peers. This …
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This paper presents some facts on China’s role in the world economy and measures the impact of China’s growth on growth in the rest of the world in the short and long term. Short-run estimates based on VARs and error-correction models suggest that spillover effects of China’s growth have...
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(FDI) between 1987 and 1996. In contrast to earlier work, our results suggest that FDI leads to substantial productivity … productivity growth in U.S. firms between 1987 and 1996. In addition, there is some evidence for import-related spillovers, but it …
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This paper highlights key issues pertinent for the understanding of international effects of domestic tax policies and of international tax harmonization. The analytical framework adopts the saving-investment balance approach to the analysis of international economic interdependence focusing on...
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Netherlands, based on firm-level data. Participation in global value chains appears to have affected productivity positively …Advanced economies have been witnessing a pronounced slowdown of productivity growth since the global financial crisis … productivity slowdown over the past two decades in four closely integrated European countries, Austria, Denmark, Germany and the …
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This paper extends Grossman and Helpman’s seminal work (1991), and presents an endogenous growth model where innovations created in a high-tech sector may be assimilated or adapted by a low-tech sector. Applying a simple Heckscher-Ohlin framework, the effects of technological diffusion are...
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