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Measuring the Success of Agricultural Transition: An Application to Russia
Liefert, William M. - 2007
farm efficiency and productivity. …
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Innovation, Productivity Growth, and the Survival of the U.S. Copper Industry
Tilton, John E.; Landsberg, Hans H. - 1997
next best deposits. This tendency to exploit poorer quality ores tends to push productivity down and the prices of mineral … wide range of cost-reducing innovations. These efforts, in turn, helped double labor productivity in copper mining during … their labor productivity and standard of living. In particular, it highlights the stimulating influence of global …
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Essays on international trade
Corbae, Dean (contributor) - 2010
conventional quantitative trade models have difficulty explaining. It goes on to develop a theory of product level productivity …
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Contracts and Technology Adoption
Acemoglu, Daron; Antras, Pol; Helpman, Elhanan - 2007
in the paper can generate sizable productivity differences across countries with different contracting institutions, and …
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Factor content functions and the theory of international trade
Neary, J. Peter; Schweinberger, Albert G. - 1986
This paper introduces the concepts of direct and indirect factor trade utility functions and uses them to derive Marshallian and Hicksian factor content functions, which express the quantities of factors of production embodied in net imports as functions of the exogenous variables facing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441439
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DINÂMICA E COMPETITIVIDADE DAS EXPORTAÇÕES DE FRUTAS DO RIO GRANDE DO NORTE NO PERÍODO DE 1999 A 2005
Andrade, Maria Elza De; Costa, Genivalda Cordeiro Da; … - 2008
O Rio Grande do Norte tem sido apontado desde a década de 1990 em vários estudos como um dos principais produtores e exportadores brasileiros de frutas frescas, no entanto, existe uma carência de estudos capazes de responder a questionamentos como: qual o desempenho competitivo do Rio Grande...
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LOCATION OF VERTICALLY LINKED INDUSTRIES UNDER FREE TRADE: CASE STUDIES OF ORANGE JUICE AND TOMATO PASTE IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
Hartman, Darcy A.; Sheldon, Ian; Tweeten, Luther - 1999
The objective of this study was to determine the economic impact on the United States of removing tariff barriers on imports of concentrated orange juice and tomato paste from South America. The study highlighted an agglomeration model of industry location recognizing imperfect competition and...
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Financial Development and International Trade: Regional and Sectoral Analysis
Susanto, Dwi; Rosson, C. Parr; Costa, Rafael F. - 2011
development on exports in both agriculture and manufacturing sectors than do advanced countries. …
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Industry, firm, year, and country effects on profitability: Evidence from a large sample of EU food processing firms
Schiefer, Jan; Hartmann, Monika - 2009
This paper analyzes the variance in accounting profitability within the European food industry. Based on a large panel data set, the variance in return on assets (ROA) is decomposed into year, country, industry, and firm effects. Further on, we include all possible interactions between year,...
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