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Pohjola, Matti - 2002

The benefits from the New Economy should accrue as improvements in productivity and economic growth. But while the use … apparent ‘productivity paradox’. The most obvious one is the fact that not many countries, other than the US, have yet invested …

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Welfare Analysis in a Schumpeterian Growth Model with Capital

Hagedorn, Marcus; Kaul, Ashok; Reinthaler, Volker - 2001

In this note we compare the laissez-faire steady-state solution in the Howitt and Aghion (1998) model to the social optimum. The analysis offers several new insights in comparison to the welfare analysis in Aghion and Howitt (1992). We find various new distortions between private and optimal...

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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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Optimal Timing of Environmental Policy; Interaction Between Environmental Taxes and Innovation Externalities

Gerlagh, Reyer; Kverndokk, Snorre; Rosendahl, Knut Einar - 2007

This paper addresses the impact of endogenous technology through research and development (R&D) and learning by doing (LbD) on the timing of environmental policy. We develop two models, the first with R&D and the second with LbD. We study the interaction between environmental taxes and...

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Optimal timing of environmental policy: Interaction between environmental taxes and innovation externalities

Gerlagh, Reyer; Kverndokk, Snorre; Rosendahl, Knut Einar - 2006

This paper addresses the impact of endogenous technology through research and development (R&D) and learning by doing (LbD) on the timing of environmental policy. We develop two models, the first with technological change through R&D and the second with LbD. We study the interaction between...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284394

Export market exit and firm survival: Theory and first evidence

Hiller, Sanne; Schröder, Philipp J. H.; Sørensen, Allan - 2013

productivity not only increases the likelihood of exporting, but also the chances of firm survival and continued export market …

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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 …

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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 factor productivity depends on an assumption about the factor …

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von Ehrlich, Maximilian; Seidel, Tobias - 2012

economic activity. If firms are more similar with respect to their total factor productivity, each company faces a lower …

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Unemployment invariance

Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002

labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity, and … productivity. …

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