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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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What Constrains Indian Manufacturing?

Gupta, Poonam; Hasan, Rana; Kumar, Utsav - 2008

India has undertaken extensive reforms in its manufacturing sector in the last two decades. However, an acceleration of growth in manufacturing, and a concomitant increase in employment, has eluded India. What might be holding the sector back? Using Annual Survey of Industries data at the...

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Aggregate Productivity Growth in Indian Manufacturing: An Application of Domar Aggregation

Das, Deb Kusum; Kalita, Gunajit - 2009

Productivity growth in Indian manufacturing is an important driver of overall growth, yet the issues related to its measurement have still not been resolved. The issue of how to compute an aggregate productivity measure holds significance for two reasons: one, the productivity of a firm should...

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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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