This articlefocuses on the relative levels of farm sector productivity forthe United States and nine European countries … for the period1973 to 1993. At the beginning of the period, Belgium had thehighest level of productivity relative to the … United States at1.689. Ireland had the lowest relative productivity at 0.759.By 1993, the range of levels of productivity had …

Neoclassical analysis of the labor market and its institutions. A systematic development of the theory of labor supply …, labor demand, and human capital. Topics discussed also include wage and employment determination, turnover, search …

Theory and evidence on government taxation policy. Topics include tax incidence; optimal tax theory; the effect of … taxation. It covers both theoretical contributions, such as the theory of optimal income and commodity taxation, as well as …

and analyzing statistical data on productivity trends and technological change in the energy-intensive manufacturing … also examine the impact of alternative model specifications on estimates of productivity growth and technological change … for each of the three sectors, and estimate the contribution of various capital inputs--imported vs. indigenous, rigid vs …

The geopressured zone, assuming the presence of natural gas and high water productivity, may be used to produce … design and costing of a double-flash 25-megawatt plant using water at 325 F gave a capital cost of $678/kwh, a fuel cost of ….5-megawatt test facility will require a total capital cost of $6,661,000. Expansion of this site to a four-well, 10-megawatt …

relationship between investments in technology capital and productivity. To measure agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) we …We assess long-run patterns of global agricultural productivity growth between 1970 and 2005 and examine the … employ a Solow-type growth accounting method to decompose output growth into input and TFP growth. For technology capital we …

Wachstumstheorie vorgestellt. Der Schwerpunkt der Arbeit ist Teil IV. Hier werden eigene innovationsbasierte Wachstumsmodelle …. Mit diesem – zusammen mit dem Solow-Modell – wahrscheinlich bedeutendsten Modell der Wachstumstheorie gründete Romer 1990 … die Neue Wachstumstheorie. In diesem Modell gelang es zum ersten Mal, technischen Fortschritt durch F&E privater …

exogenous variables such as capital costs, fuel costs, and tax rates to determine the price of electricity as well as other …