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Is technical progress sectorally concentrated? An empirical analysis for Western European countries

Schiersch, Alexander; Gornig, Martin; Belitz, Heike - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013

Previous research shows that technical progress at the industry level, measured by sectoral TFP growth, is more localized in continental European countries than in Anglo-Saxon coun-tries. We use EU KLEMS data sets to decompose sectoral TFP for nine European countries by means of a Malmquist...

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Eurozone: Konvergenz bei Spitzentechnologien, Divergenz bei wissensintensiven Dienstleistungen

Schiersch, Alexander; Gornig, Martin - In: DIW Wochenbericht 80 (2013) 37, pp. 3-9

The euro area economy is heavily specialized in research-intensive industries. The significance of these branches varies dramatically across the euro area countries but they are particularly important in Germany. Recent debate implies, to a certain extent, that the introduction of the euro...

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Deutsche forschungsintensive Industrie: Feuerprobe in der Krise bestanden?

Belitz, Heike; Gornig, Martin; Schiersch, Alexander - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung / Quarterly … 80 (2011) 3, pp. 35-54

-intensive industries by looking at the development of value added and labor productivity. Internationally comparable data on the subject …

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Is Technical Progress Sectorally Concentrated?: An Empirical Analysis for Western European Countries

Schiersch, Alexander; Belitz, Heike; Gornig, Martin - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

Previous research shows that technical progress at the industry level, measured by sectoral TFP growth, is more localized in continental European countries than in Anglo-Saxon countries. We use EU KLEMS data sets to decompose sectoral TFP for nine European countries by means of a Malmquist...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896211

Epidemics and Economics

Bloom, David E.; Canning, David - 2006

once it begins. Globally, long-term vulnerability to epidemics may decrease as development standards rise, but a more …

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Demographics and Development Policy

Bloom, David E.; Canning, David - 2011

growth and development: the age structure of the population is also fundamentally important. …

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Disease and Development Revisited

Bloom, David E.; Canning, David; Fink, Gunther - 2009

In a recent paper, Acemoglu and Johnson (2007) argue that the large increases in population health witnessed in the 20th century may have lowered income levels. We argue that this result depends crucially on their assumption that initial health and income do not affect subsequent economic...

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On the effectiveness of foreign aid in institutional quality

Asongu, Simplice A. - In: European Economic Letters 2 (2013) 1, pp. 12-19

institutional quality such that, the institutional downside of development assistance maybe questionable when greater domestic … institutional development has taken place. Based on the hypothesis of institutional thresholds for foreign aid effectiveness, the … perilous character of development assistance to institutional quality is broadly confirmed in 53 African countries for the …

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Urbanization and the Wealth of Nations

Bloom, David E.; Canning, David; Fink, Günther - 2008

The proportion of a country's population living in urban areas is highly correlated with its level of income. Urban areas offer economies of scale and richer market structures, and there is strong evidence that workers in urban areas are individually more productive, and earn more, than rural...

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Fighting consumer price inflation in Africa: What do dynamics in money, credit, efficiency and size tell us?

Asongu, Simplice A. - In: Journal of Financial Economic Policy 5 (2013) 1, pp. 39-60

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of policy options in financial dynamics (of money, credit, efficiency and size) on consumer prices. Soaring food prices have marked the geopolitical landscape of African countries in the past decade. Design/methodology/approach –...

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