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companies that achieved high-speed growth by improving their competitiveness and not as a result of market extension. There are … a vast majority of studies that search for determinants of companies' competitiveness (description is presented in the …
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This report reviews the literature on competitiveness, productivity and efficiency in the agricultural and agri … indicators used in the literature to measure competitiveness, productivity and efficiency at sectoral and farm levels. It also … discusses recent findings on productivity growth, changes in relative competitiveness between sub-sectors and countries, and …
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The paper investigates the impact of off-farm income on farm technical efficiency for the Slovenian Farm Accountancy Data Network farms in the years 2004-2008. Farm stochastic frontier time-varying decay inefficiency is positively associated with total utilised agricultural areas and total...
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This paper examines how issues of trade facilitation continue to discourage the export of manufactured goods from Africa. Pooled, cross-country, annual time series data for the period 1995 – 2004 for 20 African countries were used to examine nature of the relationship between some selected...
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Saving is one of the important determinants of economic growth. Therefore determinants of saving are indirectly important for a sustainable economic growth. Financial sector has come into prominence as a possible determinant of saving in the globalized financial markets. This study examines the...
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The article compares the market openness of Brazil, Russia, India and China with the one of the Central and Eastern European countries. The comparison is performed in relative terms in the form of a basic/visual examination of openness to foreign trade and investment and as an identification of...
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Central to the conduct of monetary policy are inflation forecasts. Inflation forecast are not unique. Central banks and professional organizations generate inflation forecasts while households are surveyed about their inflation outlook. This paper estimates inflation forecast disagreement for...
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The paper aims to contribute to a better understanding of how employment change relates to changes in poverty in the European Union’s Member States by looking at both micro and macro level correlations. EU-LFS and EU-SILC data are used to analyse trends between 2005 and 2012, to reflect also...
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In this paper, we focus on the real dimension of the price dynamics in Japan between 1980 and 2000. We use a panel industry dataset to analyze the impact of institutional and structural factors on the heterogeneous price dynamics of 10 manufacturing sectors. Although the evolution of unit labor...
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The aim of the paper is to analyze changes in taxation and their impact on economic growth in the European Union. The analysis is performed on adjusted annual panel data of 24 European Union countries in a period 1995–2008. Panel regression with fixed effects is used as a basic method of...
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