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Productivity convergence and economic growth: A frontier production function approach
Cornwell, Christopher Mark; Wächter, Jens-Uwe - 1999
The empirical growth literature has focused on capital accumulation but largely ignored productivity growth. To address this imbalance, we propose a methodology for analyzing productivity convergence based on frontier production functions. We examine whether departures from the frontier are...
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Comovement and catch-up in productivity across sectors: Evidence from the OECD
Cornwell, Christopher Mark; Wächter, Jens-Uwe - 1999
A method for analyzing productivity convergence based on frontier production functions is proposed. It is examined whether departures from the frontier
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Immobilienkrise?: Warum in Deutschland die Preise seit Jahren stagnieren
Kholodilin, Konstantin A.; Menz, Jan-Oliver; … - In: DIW Wochenbericht 75 (2008) 17, pp. 214-220
Die derzeitigen Turbulenzen auf den Immobilienmärkten in Ländern wie den USA und Spanien verstellen den Blick auf die längerfristige Entwicklung der realen Immobilienpreise. Während sie in den vergangenen Jahren in vielen westlichen Industrieländern deutlich anzogen, stagnieren sie...
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Short Run Comovement, Persistent Shocks and the Business Cycle / Eine empirische Analyse der Wirkung kurz- und langfristiger Schocks im Konjunkturzyklus
Breitung, Jörg; Heinemann, Maik - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 217 (1998) 4, pp. 436-448
Summary Following standard real business cycle theory, long run economic growth and short run business cycle fluctuations are attributed to a series of productivity shocks propagated by the economic system which is assumed to be in a rational expectations equilibrium. Characterizing the...
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Economic Impacts of the New European Banana Market Regime: The Case of Germany / Ökonomische Auswirkungen der neuen Bananenmarktordnung: Das Beispiel Deutschland
Herrmann, Roland - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 218 (1999) 1-2, pp. 63-84
Summary The objectives of this paper are (i) to assess the actual economic implications of the new European banana policy on prices, consumption and trade in Germany within a theoretical and quantitative analysis; (ii) to elaborate the welfare implications of the European banana market policy on...
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Die Entwicklung der Unternehmensinvestitionen in Deutschland / Firm Investment Behaviour in Germany
Dreger, Christian; Brautzsch, Hans-Ulrich - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 219 (1999) 3-4, pp. 284-297
Systems wird mit Tests auf schwache Exogenität untersucht. Die Ergebnisse weisen darauf hin, daß die Anpassung an das …-seasonal adjusted data from 1968 to 1989. The empirical analysis is based on cointegration techniques using the multivariate error … investment series. Given this result, the evidence for cointegration relationships at the seasonal frequencies is rather weak …
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Blood, Sweat, and Tears: The Rise and Decline of the East German Economy, 1949–1988 / Blut, Schweiß, Tränen: Aufstieg und Niedergang der ostdeutschen Wirtschaft, 1949–1988
Blum, Ulrich; Dudley, Leonard - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 220 (2000) 4, pp. 438-452
Summary The rise of the East-German economy in the 1950s and 1960s and its decline in the 1970s and 1980s is difficult to explain by neoclassical economics. However; the observed life cycle may be explained by the inclusion of concepts from old and new institutional economics and from functional...
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Inflationäre Schocks in Deutschland: Eine Common Trends Analyse / Inflationary Shocks in Germany: A Common Trends Analysis
Carstensen, Kai; Hansen, Gerd - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 224 (2004) 3, pp. 271-291
-LM model of the open economy, we conduct a cointegration analysis from which we obtain plausible long-run relationships. In the …
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Sources of German Unemployment: Evidence from a Structural VAR Model / Die Hintergründe deutscher Arbeitslosigkeit: Evidenz von einem Strukturellen VAR
Linzert, Tobias - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 224 (2004) 3, pp. 317-336
first step, a cointegration analysis of productivity, prices, real wages, employment, and the unemployment rate reveals two …
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Estimating Supply and Demand Functions in International Trade: A Multivariate Cointegration Analysis for Germany / Die Schätzung von Angebots- und Nachfragefunktionen im Außenhande...
Meurers, Martin - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 224 (2004) 5, pp. 530-556
Summary In this paper aggregate supply and demand functions for Germany’s imports and exports are estimated for the period 1975:1–1999:4. Previous studies are extended in two regards: First, the multivariate estimation technique of Johansen (1988, 1991) is employed, which helps to avoid the...
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