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Natural resources, economic growth and geography
González-Val, Rafael; Pueyo, Fernando - 2018
account geography. With this aim, our model integrates elements of the theories of endogenous growth, natural resources and … new economic geography. We find that an increase in the world growth rate can lead to a higher depletion of the natural … resources following an increase in the world demand due to expansion in population. However, the consideration of geography and …
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Capital Adjustment Patterns in Swedish Manufacturing Firms: What Model do they Suggest?
Carlsson, Mikael; Laséen, Stefan - 2001
In this paper we study the capital adjustment process in Swedish manufacturing firms and relate the empirical findings …
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Investment climate and total factor productivity in manufacturing: Analysis of Indian states
Veeramani, C.; Goldar, Bishwanath - 2004
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Regional inequality in India in the 1990s: A further look
Singh, Nirvikar; Kendall, Jake; Jain, R. K.; Chander, Jai - 2013
This paper examines changes in regional inequality in India in the 1990s, using data for 59 of India's 78 agro-climatic regions from the National Sample Survey. It extends the work of Singh et al. (2003) in two ways. First, it allows for differences in baseline growth performance across...
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Regional inequality in India in the 1990s: A district-level view
Singh, Nirvikar; Kendall, Jake; Jain, R. K.; Chander, Jai - 2013
This paper examines changes in regional inequality in India in the 1990s, using data for 210 of India's districts, spread across nine states. It provides a finer-grained quantitative analysis of growth patterns than has hitherto been attempted for India. The methodology is that of cross-section...
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Financial development and TFP growth: Cross-country and industry-level evidence
Arizala, Francisco; Cavallo, Eduardo; Galindo, Arturo - 2009
a largely unexploited panel of 77 countries with data for 26 manufacturing industries for the years 1963 to 2003. A …
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Resources on the stage: A firm level analysis of the ICT adoption in Turkey
Fındık, Derya; Tansel, Aysit - 2015
This study examines the impact of firm resources on ICT adoption by the Turkish business enterprises using firm level data. ICT adoption is measured at three levels: The first level is technology ownership. The second level is the presence of enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer...
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Risk-adjusted capital allocation and misallocation
David, Joel M.; Schmid, Lukas; Zeke, David - 2020
We develop a theory linking "misallocation," i.e., dispersion in marginal products of capital (MPK), to macroeconomic risk. Dispersion in MPK depends on (i) heterogeneity in firm-level risk premia and (ii) the price of risk, and thus is countercyclical. We document strong empirical support for...
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Technology and productivity: A critique of aggregate indicators
Block, Fred L. - 2022
Economic analysts have used trends in total factor productivity (TFP) to evaluate the effectiveness with which economies are utilizing advances in technology. However, this measure is problematic on several different dimensions. First, the idea that it is possible to separate out the relative...
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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 …
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