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-specific (temporal) index number based profitability growth as a function of the profitability, productivity and price performance growth … that the steady decline in average price performance, gains in productivity and relatively stable economic profitability … profitability than it was in earlier regulatory periods. This technique is of great interest for regulators to evaluate the …
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In the last two decades in OECD countries there has been increased development of Social Responsible (CSR is the acronym of Corporate Social Responsibility) certified firms. This certification is assigned by public and private companies which guarantee that the behaviour of a certain firm is...
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Over the last two decades in OECD countries an increasing number of firms are obtaining certification as Socially Responsible (CSR is the acronym for Corporate Social Responsibility). Several studies (including Preston and O'Bannon, 1997; Waddock and Graves, 1997; McWilliams and Sieger, 2001; Ullman, 1985)...
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Over the last two decades in OECD countries an increasing number of firms are obtaining certification as Socially Responsible (CSR is the acronym for Corporate Social Responsibility). Several studies (including Preston and O'Bannon, 1997; Waddock and Graves, 1997; McWilliams and Sieger, 2001; Ullman, 1985)...
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This work examines the impact that economic growth can have on biodiversity and on the ecological dynamics that would …
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income growth among regions. Empirical data seem to support the absolute convergence hypothesis for U.S. states, but the data … also show that natural resource-abundance is a significant negative determinant of growth. We find that natural resource … effects can fully explain the negative effect of natural resource abundance on growth. …
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to knowledge creation, a feature based on endogenous growth theory. We analyze the link from resource income future …
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elucidate part of the resource curse hypothesis; i.e. the observed negative impact of resource wealth on income growth. We … develop a variation of the Ramsey-Cass-Koopmans model with endogenous growth to explain the phenomenon. In this model … show that an increase in resource income frustrates economic growth in two ways: directly by reducing work effort and …
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We examine empirically the effect of natural resource abundance on economic growth. We find that natural resources have … a negative impact on growth when considered in isolation, but a positive impact on growth when including in the analysis … indirect effect on growth, that is, when we examine possible transmission channels, we find a strong negative effect of natural …
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This paper aims to enrich the standard toolbox for measuring diversity in economics. In so doing, we compare the indicators of diversity used by economists with those used by biologists and ecologists. Ecologists and biologists are concerned about biodiversity: the diversity of organisms that...
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