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Information Technology and the Japanese Economy
Jorgenson, Dale W. - 2005
product devoted to investment in computers, telecommunications equipment, and software rose sharply after 1995. The …
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Productivity, Computerization, and Skill Change
Wolff, Edward N. - 2002
United States, I find no econometric evidence that computer investment is positively linked to TFP growth (over and above its …
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Cointegration and Tests of Present Value Models
Campbell, John Y. - 1986
In a model where a variable Y[sub t] is proportional to the present value, with constant discount rate, of expected future values of a variable y[sub t] the "spread" S[sub t]= Y[sub t] - [theta sub t] will be stationary for some [theta] whether or not y[sub t]must be differenced to induce...
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COVID-19 Doesn't Need Lockdowns to Destroy Jobs : The Effect of Local Outbreaks in Korea
Aum, Sangmin - 2020
Unlike most countries, Korea did not implement a lockdown in its battle against COVID-19, instead successfully relying on testing and contact tracing. Only one region, Daegu-Gyeongbuk (DG), had a significant number of infections, traced to a religious sect. This allows us to estimate the causal...
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The Impact of Teacher-Student Gender Matches : Random Assignment Evidence from South Korea
Lim, Jaegeum - 2015
Gender disparities in academic performance may be driven in part by the interaction of teacher and student gender, but systematic sorting of students into classrooms makes it difficult to identify causal effects. We use the random assignment of students to Korean middle school classrooms and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457261
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ICT and Education : Evidence from Student Home Addresses
Faber, Benjamin - 2015
Governments are making it a priority to upgrade information and communication technologies (ICT) with the aim to increase available internet connection speeds. This paper presents a new empirical strategy to estimate the causal effects of these policies, and applies it to the questions of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457361
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Q-Monetary Transmission
Jeenas, Priit; Lagos, Ricardo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We study the effects of monetary-policy-induced changes in Tobin's q on corporate investment and capital structure. We … evidence, and quantify the relevance for monetary transmission to aggregate investment …
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A Structural Empirical Model of R&D Investment, Firm Heterogeneity, and Industry Evolution
Chen, Yanyou; Xu, Daniel Yi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
industry from 1991 to 1996. Plant-level decisions on R&D, physical capital investment, entry, and exit are integrated in a … physical investment, and plant scrap value distribution. Knowledge spillovers are essential to explaining the firm …
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R&D, Production Structure and Productivity Growth : A Comparison of the US, Japanese and Korean Manufacturing Sectors
Nadiri, M. Ishaq - 1996
We estimate and compare the production structures of the US, Japanese, and Korean total manufacturing sectors for the 1974-1990 period. We employ a translog variable cost function that includes such inputs as labor, materials, physical and R&D capital with the physical and R&D capital treated as...
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ICT, R&D and Organizational Innovation : Exploring Complementarities in Investment and Production
Mohnen, Pierre - 2018
, and the effects of different investment profiles on total factor productivity growth on Dutch firm-level data. We estimate … an integrated model of investment profile adoption and total factor productivity growth. We find that the three … investment decisions are complementary, in the sense that investing in one increases the probability of investing in another one …
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