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Employment effect of innovation
Kancs, D'Artis; Siliverstovs, Boriss - 2017
estimation approach used in the previous literature. Our results suggest that modest innovators do not create and may even …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011619463
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Structural change, aggregate demand and employment dynamics in the OECD, 1970 - 2010
Hartwig, Jochen - 2013
's model for the productivity regime is calibrated on - OECD data. The trajectory for employment predicted by the combination …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010197410
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An outlier-robust extreme bounds analysis of the determinants of health-care expenditure growth
Hartwig, Jochen; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2012 - This version: June 2012
Hartwig (2008) has presented empirical evidence that the difference between real wage growth and productivity growth at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009565669
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The devil is in the shadow : do institutions affect income and productivity or only official income and official productivity?
Dreher, Axel; Méon, Pierre-Guillaume; Schneider, Friedrich - 2007
This paper assesses the relationship between institutions, output, and productivity, when official output is corrected … output and total factor productivity, and its negative impact on the size of the underground economy. However, once output is … total ("corrected") factor productivity even becomes insignificant. Differences in corrected output must then be attributed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003762854
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Global technology cycles and local economic performance
Heinrich, Sebastian; Sarferaz, Samad; Wörter, Martin - 2023
This paper studies the global synchronicity of technology and its impact on the economy. We employ dynamic factor analysis to decompose patent data in different digital technologies for various countries into global and country-specific factors. Our findings confirm the existence of global and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014279279
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Improving output gap estimation : a bottom-up approach
Rathke, Alexander; Streicher, Sina - 2023
We propose a multivariate Bayesian state space model to identify potential growth and the output gap consistent with the dynamics of the underlying production sectors of the economy and those of inflation and the labor market. Our approach allows us to decompose economic fluctuations and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014427292
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The golden hello and political transitions
Aidt, Toke; Albornoz, Facundo; Gassebner, Martin - 2012
We analyze the influence of IMF and World Bank programs on political regime transitions. We develop an extended version of Acemoglu and Robinson's [American Economic Review 91, 2001] model of political transitions to show how the anticipation of new loans from international financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009629705
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Explaining IMF lending decisions after the Cold War
Moser, Christoph; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2011
This paper empirically investigates the economic and political factors that affect a country's likelihood to sign an arrangement with the IMF and the determinants of the financial size of such a program. Arguably the world and the global financial architecture underwent structural changes after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009270467
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Does export concentration cause volatility?
Busch, Christian J. - 2011
This paper investigates the causal influence of export concentration on measures of aggregate volatility. Geographically disadvantaged countries often have a concentrated export structure which makes them more vulnerable to external shocks. Identifying causal effects of export concentration on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009406700
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Patterns and determinants of international activities: are SMEs different? : An empirical analysis based on firm-level data for the Swiss business sector
Hollenstein, Heinz (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
The literature on the internationalisation of firms has paid little attention to SMEs. SME-oriented studies are predominantly descriptive or illustrating theoretical arguments, and those dealing with services are mostly confined to specific industries. The paper aims at correcting some of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001767816