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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 gestärkt aus der gegenwärtigen Wirtschaftskrise...
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Comparison of technology and technical efficiency in cereal production among EU countries
Cechura, Lukas; Hockmann, Heinrich; Malý, Michal; … - In: Agris on-line Papers in Economics & Informatics 7 (2015) 2, pp. 27-37
The paper presents the analysis of cereal production in the EU. The analysis provides the comparison of production technologies and technical efficiency among EU countries using the country specific multiple output distance function models in the first step and metafrontier approach in the...
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Recent evidence on agricultural efficiency and productivity in China: a metafrontier approach
Rungsuriyawiboon, Supawat; Wang, Xiaobing - 2007
applied using a panel data set on 28 provinces during 1991-2005. The provinces are categorized into advanced-technology and … low-technology provinces. Based on the metafrontier estimation, TFP growth is decomposed into TE change (TEC), technical … low-technology provinces, respectively. Most of the advanced-technology provinces exhibited higher TE than the low-technology …
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The impact of reform on economic growth in China: A principal component analysis
Song, Ligang; Sheng, Yu - 2008
The study decomposes the sources of Chinese growth by first making a distinction between technological progress and technical efficiency in the growth accounting framework, and then identifying a series of reform programmes, such as urbanization, structural change, privatization, liberalization,...
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Accelerated Technological Progress - An Explanation for Wage Dispersion and a Possible Solution to the Productivity Paradox
Nikutowski, Oliver - 2007
of qualification. Therefore it seems quite contradictory that a tremendous educational expansion in the USA is …
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Beef up your competitor: a model of advertising cooperation between internet search engines
Sapi, Geza; Suleymanova, Irina - 2009
the effects of an agreement where the more advanced firm shares its technology with the inferior one. We show that the …
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Nonfundamental representations of the relation between technology shocks and hours worked
Barigozzi, Matteo; Capasso, Marco - 2008
Estimating the response of hours worked to technology shocks is often considered as a crucial step for evaluating the … estimated using a VAR, and retrieve alternative nonfundamental representations of the relation between technology shocks and … conditioning on a technology shock. This result is more robust than the results by Christiano et al. [2004], because it is …
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Entry and the Choice between Greenfield or Takeover: The Neglected Technological Determinants
Fölster, Stefan; Nyberg, Sten - 1993
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When, where and how to perform efficiency estimation
Badunenko, Oleg; Henderson, Daniel J.; Kumbhakar, Subal C. - 2011
In this paper we compare two flexible estimators of technical efficiency in a cross-sectional setting: the nonparametric kernel SFA estimator of Fan, Li and Weersink (1996) to the nonparametric bias corrected DEA estimator of Kneip, Simar and Wilson (2008). We assess the finite sample...
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A general model of technical change with an application to the OECD countries
Heshmati, Almas; Kumbhakar, Subal C. - 2011
call technology shifters (economic factors). We use several composite technology indices based on appropriate combinations … of the external economic factors which are indicators of different aspects of technology. These technology indices are … specific external economic factors. Furthermore, the technology shifters allow for non-neutral and biased shifts in TC. We also …
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