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Entrepreneurs, Sticky Competition and the Schumpeterian Cobb-Douglas Production Function
Mo, Pak Hung - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
In this paper, we institute the role of entrepreneurs in technical progress and the mechanism of tools multiplication into the Cobb Douglas Production Function. After the advancements, the technology component in the function has technical meaning and is potentially observable. Unlimited...
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Growth challenges for the business services industry - international comparison and policy issues
Kox, Henk L.M. - EconWPA - 2003
national innovation systems. The study also analyses the factors behind this industry's poor productivity growth. A scenario …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134465
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The importance of measuring dispersion in firm-level outcomes
Syverson, Chad - In: IZA World of Labor (2014) May, pp. 1-10
Recent research has revealed enormous variation in performance and growth among firms, which both drives and is driven by large reallocations of inputs and outputs across firms (churning) within industries and markets. These differences in firm-level outcomes and the associated turnover of firms...
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Knowledge-based Hierarchies: Using Organizations to Understand the Economy
Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban; Garicano, Luis - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We argue that incorporating the decision of how to organize the acquisition, use, and communication of knowledge into economic models is essential to understand a wide variety of economic phenomena. We survey the literature that has used knowledge-based hierarchies to study issues like the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950675
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Sources of Firm Life-Cycle Dynamics: Differentiating Size vs. Age Effects
Kueng, Lorenz; Yang, Mu-Jeung; Hong, Bryan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
empirical successes and shortcomings of current theory. First, models of organizational capital and innovation are broadly … sheets and innovation, representative of the entire Canadian economy, we study recent theories that examine life … frictions, learning about demand, and recent endogenous growth models with incumbent innovation. We emphasize the importance of …
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Boosting Growth and Reducing Informality in Mexico
Dougherty, Sean - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2015
Mexico has embarked on a bold package of structural reforms that will help it to break away from three decades of slow growth and low productivity. Major structural measures have been legislated to improve competition, education, energy, the financial sector, labour, infrastructure and the tax...
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Dynamic Factor Demand Models and Productivity Analysis
Nadiri, M.I.; Prucha, I. - C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics, Department of … - 1999
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On the Road: Access to Transportation Infrastructure and Economic Growth in China
Duflo, Esther; Banerjee, Abhijit; Qian, Nancy - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
This paper estimates the effect of access to transportation networks on regional economic outcomes in China over a twenty-period of rapid income growth. It addresses the problem of the endogenous placement of networks by exploiting the fact that these networks tend to connect historical cities....
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The strategic role of the Food Research Institute in productivity enhancement and the private sector development in Ghana
Yawson, Robert M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
The Private Sector Development Project (PSDP) was a culmination of the renewed commitment of the Government of Ghana to accelerate the pace of development of Ghana’s private sector. The project was also a direct result of the Business Community’s own assessment of Lingering issues which...
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Modelling smooth and uneven cross-sectoral growth patterns: an identification problem
Sapio, Sandro; Roventini, Andrea; Napoletano, Mauro - In: Economics Bulletin 15 (2006) 7, pp. 1-8
This paper shows that the available stylized facts on productivity dynamics, such as persistent cross-sectoral heterogeneity, do not allow to solve an identification problem regarding the impact of common drivers - such as General Purpose Technologies (GPTs) - on economic growth. The evidence of...
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