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Total Factor Productivity and the Role of Entrepreneurship
Erken, Hugo; Donselaar, Piet; Thurik, Roy - 2009
Total factor productivity of twenty OECD countries for a recent period (1971-2002) is explained using six different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014208199
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Forecasting Aggregate Productivity Using Information from Firm-Level Data
Bartelsman, Eric J. - 2017
This paper contributes to the productivity literature by using results from firm-level productivity studies to improve … forecasts of macro-level productivity growth. The paper employs current research methods on estimating firm-level productivity … to build times-series components that capture the joint dynamics of the firm-level productivity and size distributions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976846
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Fertile Soil for Structural Funds?
Ederveen, Sjef; de Groot, Henri L.F.; Nahuis, Richard - 2002
Structural funds are the most intensively used policy instrument by the EuropeanUnion to promote economic growth in its member states and to speed up the process ofconvergence. This paper empirically explores the effectiveness of European Structural Fundsby means of a panel data analysis for 13...
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The Empirical Economic Growth Literature
Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; de Groot, Henri L.F.; Heijungs, … - 2002
The empirical economic growth literature is criticized for its lack ofrobustness. For different definitions of robustness, conclusions vary from 'almost everycorrelation is fragile' to 'a substantial number of explanatory variables are robust.' Were-analyze the empirical results of the economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324921
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The More Business Owners the Merrier? The Role of Tertiary Education
van Praag, Mirjam; van Stel, Andre - 2011
average). Second, the relation between business ownership and macroeconomic productivity is steeper for countries with higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325643
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Optimal Management with Potential Regime Shifts
Polasky, Stephen; de Zeeuw, Aart; Wagener, Florian - 2010
We analyze how the threat of a potential future regime shift affects optimal management. We use a simple general growth model to analyze four cases that involve combinations of stock collapse versus changes in system dynamics, and exogenous versus endogenous probabilities of regime shift. Prior...
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Total Factor Productivity and the Role of Entrepreneurship
Erken, Hugo; Donselaar, Piet; Thurik, Roy - 2009
Total factor productivity of twenty OECD countries for a recent period (1971-2002) is explained using six different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325764
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Variable Selection and Functional Form Uncertainty in Cross-Country Growth Regressions
Salimans, Tim - 2011
Regression analyses of cross-country economic growth data are complicated by two main forms of model uncertainty: the uncertainty in selecting explanatory variables and the uncertainty in specifying the functional form of the regression function. Most discussions in the literature address these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325783
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From Tradition to Modernity: Economic Growth in a Small World
Lindner, Ines; Strulik, Holger - 2012
productivity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326250
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Financial Globalization and Foreign Direct Investment
Poelhekke, Steven - 2016
This chapter provides a broad overview of the upward trends in financial globalization and foreign direct investment and asks whether and how financial globalization is linked with the foreign direct investment decisions of non-financial multinational enterprises. Several potential links and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011586713