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Accumulation and Productivity Growth in Industrializing Economies

Robertson, Peter E.; Landon-Lane, John S. - 2003

Historically, episodes of rapid growth are accompanied by significant structural change. In this paper we therefore aim to quantify the extent to which factor accumulation induces structural change and productivity growth in industrializing economies. To fix ideas we present an extension of...

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Potential switchovers in comparative advantage: Patterns of industrial convergence

Landesmann, Michael; Stehrer, Robert - 2000

Although there exists a vast literature on convergence and divergence of income levels across countries or regions at the aggregate level, there is only little work on convergence and/or diver- gence processes of productivity and wage levels at the more disaggregated industrial level. These are...

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Endogeneous regulatory delay and the timing of product innovation

Prieger, James E. - 2005

This paper endogenizes the interplay between innovation by a regulated firm and regulatory delay. When product … innovation costs fall over time, an extra day of regulatory delay increases time to introduction by more than a day. In the … signaling model, the firm therefore times its innovation to communicate its private information about the marginal cost of delay …

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Regulation, innovation, and the introduction of new telecommunications services

Prieger, James E. - 2000

I examine the effects of FCC regulation on the innovation and introduction of advanced telecommunications services in … the U.S. An interim of lighter regulation provides an experiment to test the regulatory regime''s impact on innovation …. The econometric model comprises an arrival process (for service innovation) followed by a duration process (for regulatory …

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Telecommunications regulation and new services: A case study at the state level

Prieger, James E. - 2000

The effects that regulation has on the innovation and the introduction of new telecommunications services have not been … (RoRR) and under alternative regulation. The econometric model comprises an count process (for innovation) followed by a …

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The Economic History of Sovereignty: Communal Responsibility, the Extended Family, and the Firm

Börner, Lars; Ritsch, Albrecht - Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung <Zürich>; … - 2008

Economic institutions encompassing increasingly sophisticated concepts of risk-sharing and liability flourished in Europe since the High Middle Ages. These innovations occurred in an environment of fragmented local jurisdictions, not within the framework of the territorial state. In this short...

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Bundling of Services and Household Welfare in Developing Countries Using Panel Data: The Case of Peru

Chong, Alberto; Hentschel, Jesko; Saavedra-Chanduví, Jaime - 2004

Using panel data for Peru for the period 1994-2000, we find that when households receive two or more services jointly, the welfare increases of the household, as measured by changes in consumption, are larger than when services are provided separately. Such an increase appears to be more than...

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Emigration and democracy

Docquier, Frédéric; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Rapoport, … - 2011

Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions. The paper documents the channels through which emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries. We find that emigration and human capital both...

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UNLOCKING PRODUCTIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP INAFRICA’S LEAST DEVELOPEDCOUNTRIES

Brixiová, Zuzana - William Davidson Institute <Ann Arbor, Mich.> - 2010

In Africa’s least developed countries (LDCs), escape from poverty and convergence to livingstandards of more advanced economies depends critically on structural transformation and theemergence of productive entrepreneurship that would accelerate growth and job creation. So far,however,...

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