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period is considered. The ‘role of the state’ theory performs better until 1970 whereas after the Golden Age, technology and …
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GPT can be defined as "a technology that initially has much scope for improvement and evntually comes to be widely used …). Subsequently, as the scope of the technology is finally exhausted, its impact on growth will fade away. If, at that point, a new …
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In an influential article Saxonhouse and Wright argued that the quality of local cottonwas the single most important factor in explaining national preferences for ring ormule spinning. For Britain, they argue that mills using more flexible mule spindlescould exploit arbitrage opportunities...
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The usual way to evaluate the implications of new technology for economic growth is through growth accounting … technology (ICT) and the results have dominated thinking on the post-1995 growth resurgence in the United States (Oliner and …
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technology adoption and trade in a world of two countriesfacing different technology adoption costs. It shows that a reduction in … the technologyadoption cost in one country increases the productivity, induces more firms to adoptadvanced technology, and … improves welfare in this country, while decreasing the pro-ductivity, inducing more firms to switch back to old technology, and …
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Recently the phenomena of external technology exploitation (ETE) has startet to attract from scholars, business and … politicians likewise alongside with a growth of markets for technology. However, the makets for technology are still characterized …
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model in which, all other things being equal, a) the adoption of a new technology is more likely in richer and larger … counties; b) the adoption of a new technology is less likely the more advanced is the technology already adopted in the county …
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Do firms employing undocumented workers have a competitive advantage? Using administrative data from the state of Georgia, this paper investigates the incidence of undocumented worker employment across firms and how it affects firm survival. Firms are found to engage in herding behavior, being...
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Whereas analyses of competitive dynamics have hitherto focused on analysing the effects of intra-industry interaction on firm performance, we explore and analyse competition between actors that stem from different industries. This inter-industry focus is novel and interesting, as it allows the...
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