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Productivity differences across OECD countries, 1970–2000: the world technology frontier revisited

Growiec, Jakub - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

We re-estimate the World Technology Frontier (WTF) non-parametrically, using the Data Envelopment Analysis method, with a dataset covering both OECD country-level and US state-level data on GDP per worker and the stocks of physical capital, unskilled labor, and skilled labor. The WTF 2000 is...

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The effects of technology-as-knowledge on the economic performance of developing countries: An econometric analysis using annual publications data for Botswana, Namibia, and South...

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Extant literature indicates that technology, and by implication its underlying knowledge base, determines long-run economic performance. Absent from the literature with respect to developing countries are quantitative assessments of the nexus between technology as knowledge and economic...

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On the Measurement of Technological Progress Across Countries

Growiec, Jakub - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

We construct 14 alternative measures of technological progress for 19 OECD countries over the period 1970--2000, distinguishing between measures of productivity gains actually obtained in a given country (TFP growth, Malmquist index) and technological progress at the world technology frontier...

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Productivity growth and catch up in Europe: A new perspective on total factor productivity differences

Filippetti, Andrea; Payrache, Antonio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper investigates the relative contribution of capital deepening and total factor productivity (TFP) as drivers of labour productivity growth and catch up in Europe. Proxies for technological capabilities (technology gap) are introduced which allow to explain differences in TFP. Using a...

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ICT and Productivity Growth in Transition Economies: Two-Phase Convergence and Structural Reforms

Piatkowski, Marcin; Bart, van Ark - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

This paper investigates the role of information and communication technology (ICT) as a driver of improved productivity performance of Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries and Russia (CEER) relative to the EU-15 and the U.S. during the 1990s. The paper investigates how, and to what...

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Industry Spillovers Effects on Productivity of Large International Firms

Aldieri, Luigi; Vinci, Concetto Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

The aim of this paper is to explore the impact of intra- and inter-industry spillover components on productivity of large International firms. We use data from all EU R&D investment scoreboards editions issued every year until 2011 by the JRC-IPTS (scoreboards). The analysis is based upon a new...

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Sir W. Arthur Lewis and the Africans: Overlooked Economic Growth Lessons

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Development Economics is well-known and appreciated. Less known and openly appreciated is his economic theory of growth and … (NIAEs) have read carefully and followed closely and well Lewis’s theory in devising their growth and change strategies and … conceptualized in Lewis’s theory of economic growth and technological change. First, for a country to grow it has to acknowledge that …

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Regional inequalities in the impact of broadband on productivity: Evidence from Brazil

Jung, Juan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The aim of this paper is to perform an analysis of the impact of broadband on regional productivity in Brazil. The possibility of performing a regional approach, instead of the usual country-level analysis, constitutes an opportunity to decode the economic impact of broadband at territories...

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Measuring the sources of economic growth in the EU with parametric and non-parametric methods

Krasnopjorovs, Olegs - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The standard neoclassical growth accounting (parametric) framework serves to explain only a minor part of labour productivity growth and its cross-country differences, thus implying an important role (as yet unexplained) for the Solow Residual or the Total Factor Productivity (TFP). However, the...

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"Economic Growth and the Natural World"

Wesson, Joseph - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This is a survey of some ideas relating to the theory of economic growth and how economic growth impacts the natural …

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