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Total Factor Productivity Growth On Britain’s Railways, 1852-1912: A Reappraisal Of The Evidence
Crafts, Nicholas F. R.; Mills, Terence C.; Mulatu, Abay - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005
This paper revisits the issue of the productivity performance of pre-World War I Britain’s railway system with an … it stabilized at about 1.1%. An analysis of company-level productivity rejects the claims that there was a regulation …-induced revival of productivity performance in the railway sector after 1900 but, on the other hand, it supports the claim that there …
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The information content of market liquidity: An empirical analysis of liquidity at the Oslo Stock Exchange
Skjeltorp, Johannes A.; Ødegaard, Bernt Arne - Universitetet <Stavanger> / School of Business … - 2009
We investigate the information content of aggregate stock market liquidity and askwhether it may be a useful realtime indicator, both for nancial stress, and real economicactivity in Norway. We describe the development in a set of liquidity proxies at the OsloStock Exchange (OSE) for the period...
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Vorlesung: Deutsche Wirtschaft seit 1850
Pfister, Ulrich
Das Skript gibt einen Überblick über die Entwicklung der Deutschen Wirtschaft seit Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts.
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United States Department of Labor - Bureau of Labor Statistics - Charting International Labor Comparisons (2012 Edition)
United States / Bureau of Labor Statistics - 2003
Showcasing data from all areas of the ILC program and other sources, Charting International Labor Comparisons is a gateway to explore how key labor market and other national economic measurements compare across countries. There are links to previous editions of the Chartbook of International...
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Economic History or History of Economics?A Review Essay on Sylvia Nasar’sGrand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius
Ashenfelter, Orley - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
In this essay I review Sylvia Nasar’s long awaited new history of economics, Grand Pursuit. Idescribe how the book is an economic history of the period from 1850-1950, withdistinguished economists’ stories inserted in appropriate places. Nasar’s goal is to show howeconomists work, but also...
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Business Cycles and Economic Policy, 1914-1945: A Survey
Ritschl, Albrecht; Straumann, Tobias - London School of Economics and Political Science; … - 2009
The Great War of 1914-18 constituted a major rupture for the economies of Europe in several respects. It marked the end of almost a century of uninterrupted economic growth. It ended a long period of near-universal currency stability, and set in motion a painful process of de-globalisation. It...
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Structural Change and Business Cycles:An Evolutionary Approach
Lorentz, André; Savona, Maria - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2010
The aim of this paper is to account for both the short-run uctuations and thevery-long run transformations induced by technological change in analysing long-rungrowth patterns. The paper investigates the possible imprint left by short-run uctuationson the long run dynamics by aecting the...
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Incentive Contracts and Total Factor Productivity
Bental, Benjamin; Demougin, Dominique - 2004
This paper deals with endogenous determination of effort as a source of productivity growth. …
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ECONOMIC POLICIES FOR GROWTH AND EMPLOYMENT
Cameron, Gavin; Fawcett, Nicholas - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2005
In 2000, the Lisbon Agenda set out an ambitious plan to make the EuropeanUnion “the most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy inthe world”. The Agenda suggested a need for action on three broad fronts:the first explicitly macroeconomic; the second explicitly microeconomic;the third...
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COMPARING SECTORAL PRODUCTIVITY ACROSS COUNTRIES
Glyn, Andrew - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2004
trends. Comparing productivity levels across countries is notoriously tricky, but one attractive approach has been to deflate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870209