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We examine the productivity of public infrastructure in a general equilibrium context. In our model, infrastructure … to variety. Infrastructure alters factor prices, intermediate prices and the allocation of factors across sectors. The …
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In this paper we examine the effects of publicly financed infrastructure and R&D capital on the cost structure and … dominate while in others changes in technology or relative prices are the main contributors. Publicly financed infrastructure …
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The impact of public infrastructure investment on the productive performance of firms has been an important focus of …. However, detailed evaluation of the infrastructure impact is difficult using existing studies which rely on restricted models …, nonproduction and production labor and energy) use of manufacturing firms to evaluate the contribution of infrastructure to firms …
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In this paper the authors examine the effects of publicly financed infrastructure and R&D capitals on the cost …
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interaction of those forces influenced water and sanitary infrastructure provision during the 19th and early 20th centuries. I … show the sharp link between infrastructure investments and declines in waterborne disease and discuss how that relationship … the benefits of infrastructure investment far exceeded the costs …
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In this paper we report results of an empirical assessment of the cost reducing impacts of recent dramatic increases in stocks of "high-tech" office and information technology equipment (0) using annual data from various two digit US manufacturing industries over the 1952-1986 time period. While...
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Is private industry investing in backbone digital technology in a manner consistent with social policy? To address this question we assemble highly disaggregate data and compute indices for the geographic distribution of advanced backbone information technology in computing and...
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This paper compares the impact of new IT-enhanced technology on the efficiency of production in the U.S. and the U.K. for one manufacturing industry, valve manufacturing. There is a long-standing question of whether technological change and organizational changes have the same rates of adoption...
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Using a unique longitudinal representative survey of both manufacturing and non-manufacturing businesses in the United States during the 1990's, I examine the incidence and intensity of organizational innovation and the factors associated with investments in organizational innovation. Past...
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We examine the role of the ICT revolution in driving productivity growth behavior for the United States and an aggregate of ten Western European nations (the EU-10) from 1977 to 2015. We find that the standard growth accounting approach is deficient when it separates sources of growth between...
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