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Education, Innovation, and Growth - Critical Appraisal and Cliometric Analyses with Implications for Present Economic Policy

Müller, Normann - 2009

'.The first project reveals that the prevailing notion of education externalities is misleading and therefore empirical … externalities of education according to Lucas (1988) are likely to be internalized on the labor market. Education is recognized as a … education. Further, by differentiating 'education' and 'knowledge' it becomes obvious that growth externalities according to …

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Understanding Australia’s industry-level productivity dynamics: from measurement to econometric estimation

Zheng, Weiquan - 2009

This thesis investigates a range of issues related to the industry-level productivity growth in Australia. It approaches the issues from three different, but related angles. First, it derives the estimates of the industry-level multifactor productivity (MFP) index for the 12 market-sector...

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Price-cost mark-ups in the Spanish economy : a microeconomic perspective

Montero Montero, José Manuel; Urtasun Amann, Alberto - 2014

This paper explores the dynamics of price-cost mark-ups using firm-level data, paying particular attention to the crisis period 2008-2011. To this end, we apply the econometric framework developed by Klette (1999) to a comprehensive sample of Spanish non-financial corporations in order to...

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Input Substitution in the Spanish Food Industry

Alarcon, Silverio - 2005

Firm panel data sets over the period 1993 to 2002 are used to estimate translog production functions with labour, capital and material inputs for 9 Spanish food industries. To tackle the endogeneity of the regressors, the generalized method of moments estimations is employed. The specification...

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Heterogeneous Production Efficiency of Specialized Swine Producers

Tonsor, Glynn T.; Featherstone, Allen M. - 2006

This research evaluates the efficiency of swine firms differing by specialization type and employed technologies. Measures of technical, allocative, scale, economic, and overall efficiency are separately and jointly estimated for farrow-to-finish, farrow-to-feeder, feeder-to-finish,...

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The relationship between farm size and productivity: empirical evidence from the Nepalese mid-hills

Thapa, Sridhar - 2007

This paper examines the farm size and productivity relationship using data from Nepalese mid hills. The household data used has been drawn from a survey conducted by the author and financed by the Norwegian University of Life Science. The analysis uses models both allowing for and not allowing...

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A Note on the Valuation of Ecosystem Services in Production

Simpson, R. David - 2001

There has been considerable recent interest in the valuation of ecosystem services. We focus here on the value of such services in the production of market goods. Although the conceptual basis for conducting such exercises is straightforward, the data with which to implement them empirically is...

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Four Essays on Human Capital Externalities

Heuermann, Daniel Frederik - 2009

productivity. It takes the notion of local human capital externalities as its core theoretical concept, which contends that … respect to Germany, the notion of local human capital externalities is of potential relevance since average levels of … regional productivity can be assigned to local human capital externalities and sheds light on the microeconomic mechanisms …

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Eigenverantwortliche Individuen und Pro-Aktive Unternehmen

Heblich, Stephan - 2007

Die Arbeit setzt sich aus acht Kapiteln zusammen, die jeweils auf eigenst?ndigen Beitr?gen basieren. Die Beitr?ge insgesamt besch?ftigen sich mit der Fragestellung, wie der Nationalstaat, die Individuen und die Unternehmen gemeinsam aktuellen wirtschafts- und sozialpolitischen Herausforderungen...

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Network externalities - the economics of universal access

Michie, Jonathan - 1997

full-text of this article is not available in ORA at this time. Citation: Michie, J. (1997). 'Network externalities - the …

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