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Estimating the impact of climate change on agricultural production : accounting for technology heterogeneity across countries

Exenberger, Andreas; Pondorfer, Andreas; Wolters, Maik H. - 2014

We estimate the impact of climate change on agricultural production in a panel of 127 countries from 1961 to 2002. In contrast to the existing literature we account for cross-sectional dependence and technology heterogeneity. We find no significant impact of climate change on agricultural...

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Subsidization and structural change in Eastern German transition : did economic policy meet its objectives?

Gerling, Katja - 2000

Economic policy interventions of a scale as effected in eastern Germany can be expected to have a significant impact on the economy, which may be in accordance with the objectives of the policy measures or manifest itself in distortions of several kinds. This paper analyzes the structural...

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The new economy - what is really new?

Siebert, Horst - 2000

of productivity, to a larger production potential and to a higher growth rate. The new economy has implications for …

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Sectoral value added prices, TFP growth, and the low-skilled wage in high-income countries

Lücke, Matthias - 1999

productivity (TFP) on the equilibrium relative wage of low-skilled workers in eleven high-income countries. The key finding is that …

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The decline of schooling productivity in OECD countries

Gundlach, Erich; Woessmann, Ludger; Gmelin, Jens - 2000 - Revised version

Based on Baumol’s cost-disease model, we develop two alternative measures of the change in the productivity of … schooling. Both productivity measures are based on changes in the relative price of schooling. We find that in most OECD … countries the price of schooling has increased faster in 1970-94 than would be compatible with constant schooling productivity …

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Estimating direct and indirect effects of foreign direct investment on firm productivity in the presence of interactions between firms

Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger; … - 2014

We implement a method to estimate the direct effects of foreign-ownership on foreign firms' productivity and the … indirect effects (or spillovers) from the presence of foreign-owned firms on other foreign and domestic firms' productivity in … in empirical studies examining a direct causal effect of foreign ownership on firm productivity, namely that of no …

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Catching up of emerging economies : the role of capital goods imports, FDI inflows, domestic investment and absorptive capacity

Glas, Alexander; Hübler, Michael; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2015

source countries in terms of total factor productivity (TFP). We find that the importance of these transmission mechanisms …

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Learning how to export

Segerstrom, Paul Stephen; Stepanok, Ignat - 2012

In this paper, we present a standard quality ladders endogenous growth model with one significant new assumption, that it takes time for firms to learn how to export. We show that this model without Melitz-type assumptions can account for all the evidence that the Melitz (2003) model was...

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Trend growth and learning about monetary policy rules

Tesfaselassie, Mewael F. - 2011

The paper examines the effect of trend productivity growth on the determinacy and learnability of equilibria under …

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Decompositions of wage inequality and growth in an advanced economy open to trade

Edwards, Terence Huw; Lücke, Matthias - 2011

We explore the uses of double-calibrated general equilibrium models as a decomposition tool for analysing contributory factors in the growth and increasing wage inequality in an advanced economy (the UK) since 1979. Calibration of a model to start and end years, based upon an assumed functional...

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