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Technologische Spezialisierung sichert Wachstumschancen
Belitz, Heike; Clemens, Marius; Gornig, Martin - In: DIW Wochenbericht 76 (2009) 11, pp. 162-168
Das Produktionsprofil seiner Wirtschaft spricht dafür, dass Deutschland gestärkt aus der gegenwärtigen Wirtschaftskrise … Güter und wissensintensiver Dienstleistungen entfällt, höher als in Deutschland. Dabei besitzt Deutschland in den forschungs … wichtigen traditionellen Handelspartner beträchtlich. Zwar ist Deutschland mit seiner hohen Exportquote und seiner …
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Deutsche Industrie durch forschungsintensive Güter erfolgreich
Belitz, Heike; Gornig, Martin; Schiersch, Alexander - In: DIW Wochenbericht 77 (2010) 9, pp. 2-10
Deutschland ist mit seiner starken Spezialisierung auf die Produktion von Investitionsgütern von der weltweiten … Rezession besonders betroffen. Das technologieintensive Produktionsprofil seiner Industrie spricht aber dafür, dass Deutschland … Produktion auf forschungsintensive Güter so stark wie hierzulande. Deutschland hat gegenüber seinen wichtigsten Wettbewerbern …
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Technology and economic performance in the German economy
Siebert, Horst; Stolpe, Michael - 2001
Germany remains Europe's largest and most diversified source of new technology, but still lags in the fastest growing areas of today's high technology. After World War II, West-German technology policy sought to rebuild the institutions which had supported Germany's leadership in the high-tech...
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Special Interests and Technological Change
Bellettini, Giorgio; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P. - 2003
We study an OLG economy where productivity growth comes from two alternative sources: process innovation and learning-by-doing. There is a trade-off between the two in so far as frequent technological updates reduce the scope for learning on existing technologies. A conflict is shown to arise...
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Long-Run Growth and the Evolution of Technological Knowledge
Hakenes, Hendrik; Irmen, Andreas - 2007
The long-run evolution of per-capita income exhibits a structural break often associated with the Industrial Revolution. We follow Mokyr (2002) and embed the idea that this structural break reflects a regime switch in the evolution of technological knowledge into a dynamic framework, using Airy...
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An evolutionary model of international competition and growth
Castaldi, Carolina - 2002
The paper attempts to interpret a few stylized facts of international economic growth by means of an open economy evolutionary model. The idea is that growth models that incorporate a richer representation of the properties and effects of technological change can give a better explanation of the...
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The Evolution of the Literature on Technological Change over time: A Survey
Conte, Andrea - 2006
the development of a more general theory of the determinants and the effects of TC. In turn, such theory has to deal …
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Multi-task learning and the reorganization of work: From Tayloristic to holistic organization
Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 1999
The paper analyzes the contemporary organizational restructuring of production and work within firms. We emphasize the shift from a "Tayloristic" organization of work (characterized by significant specialization by tasks) to a "holistic" organization (featuring job rotation, integration of tasks...
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Interpreting productivity growth in the new economy: Some agnostic notes
Gundlach, Erich - 2001
The growth rate of total factor productivity seems to have increased recently, at least in the United States. Higher US productivity growth may justify higher stock market valuations than in the past and thus herald an emerging New Economy. However, the size of the estimated growth rate of total...
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Exhaustible Resources, Technology Choice and Industrialization of Developing Countries
Färnstrand Damsgaard, Erika - 2010
How should the world economy adapt to the increased demand for exhaustible resources from countries like China and India? To address that issue, this paper presents a dynamic model of the world economy with two technologies for production; a resource technology which uses an exhaustible resource...
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