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: Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Italy for the year 1992. Based on the estimation of a … analysis and a measure of innovativity comparable to that of total factor productivity. This innovation accounting framework is …
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roughly the same the U, S., Japan, and Europe. The cyclical analysis allows an estimate of trend productivity growth …This paper studies the dynamic behavior of changes in productivity, wages, and prices. Results are based on a new data …. Results are presented for the U. S., Japan, and an aggregate called "Europe" consisting of eleven European economies. The …
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We compute new estimates for Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth in the United States and in five European countries … utilization. These novelties have a major impact, especially in Europe, where our estimated TFP growth series are less volatile …-level and aggregate TFP series, as well as the first estimates of utilization-adjusted quarterly TFP growth in Europe …
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At low and moderate levels of government debt, there appears to be little relation between the level of debt and its maturity. But at high levels of debt, a strong inverse relation emerges. We start the paper by documenting this inverse relation for those OECD Countries which have reached very...
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total factor productivity (TFP) and static measures of capital misallocation within a country. Using data on 5 … between productivity volatility and the dispersion of the marginal revenue product of capital (static capital misallocation … time-series volatility of productivity are also characterized by greater cross-sectional dispersion in productivity …
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We use the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys data to analyze the employment of both labor and capital in Indian … relationship to both (i) institutional constraints, and (ii) productivity …
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The relative popularity of adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) and fixed-rate mort- gages (FRMs) varies considerably both across countries and over time. We ask how movements in current and expected future interest rates affect the share of ARMs in total mortgage issuance. Using a nine-country...
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individuals with basic health insurance in the Netherlands. We evaluate empirically the benefits of constraints in terms of …
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In this paper I analyze the productivity gains from trade liberalization in the Belgian textile industry. So far …, empirical research has established a strong relationship between opening up to trade and productivity, relying almost entirely … on deflated sales to proxy for output in the production function. The latter implies that the resulting productivity …
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. Using the universe of buyer-supplier relationships in Belgium, the paper develops a set of stylized facts that motivate a …
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