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Accounting for Growth in Spain, 1850-2019
Prados de la Escosura, Leandro; Rosés, Joan R. - 2020
The current productivity slowdown has stimulated research on the causes of growth. We investigate here the proximate determinants of long-term growth in Spain. Over the last 170 years output per hour worked raised nearly 24-fold dominating GDP growth, while hours worked per person shrank by...
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The EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism and its Influence on Steel Imports from Taiwan
Best, Frank
, power generation in Taiwan relies heavily on fossil fuels. This paper identifies the Iron & Steel product flows from Taiwan … to the EU. It describes the CBAM requirements and the potential impact on Taiwanese Iron & Steel exports, pointing out …. Taiwan is an important trade partner of the EU, especially for electronic components, and also for base metals like Iron …
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A Vintage Model of Swedish Economic Growth from 1870 to 1975
Bentzel, Ragnar - 1977
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Why did socialist economies fail?
Vonyó, Tamás; Klein, Alexander - 2017
We present new investment data and revised growth accounts for three socialist economies between 1950 and 1989. Government statistics reported distorted measures for both the rate and trajectory of productivity growth in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland. Researchers have benefited from...
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Introducing Railway Time in the Balkans: Economic effects of railway construction in Southeast Europe and beyond since the early 19th century until present days
Alvarez, Eduard; Holzner, Mario; Jestl, Stefan; … - 2016
In this paper we analyse the economic effects of railway infrastructure at the national level for European countries as well as at the local level for Southeast European cities based on a novel railway database capturing decades of the 19th century up to the early 21th century. A panel fixed...
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Driving factors of growth in Hungary - a decomposition exercise
Kátay, Gábor; Wolf, Zoltán - 2008
Applications tend to ignore that measured TFP reflects the variation of output that cannot be explained by changes in inputs. Such a change is not necessarily technological, so measured TFP differences across firms are an amalgam of technological, efficiency and other differences in attributes,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322437
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Forecasting Aggregate Productivity using Information from Firm-Level Data
Bartelsman, Eric J.; Wolf, Zoltan - 2009
This paper contributes to the productivity literature by using results from firm-level productivity studies to improve forecasts of macro-level productivity growth. The paper employs current research methods on estimating firm-level productivity to build times-series components that capture the...
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Misallocation and Productivity in Colombia’s Manufacturing Industries
Camacho, Adriana; Conover, Emily - 2010
Following Hsieh and Klenow (2009), this paper studies productivity dispersions in Colombian industrial establishments using the Colombian Annual Manufacturing Survey (AMS) from 1982 to 1998. The United States is used as a benchmark to estimate the reallocation of capital and labor to equalize...
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A comment on Nishimura, Nakajima, and Kiyota's "Does the natural selection mechanism still work in severe recessions? Examination of the Japanese economy in the 1990s"
Okada, Tae; Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2007
Nishimura, Nakajima, and Kiyota (2005) analyze the entry/exit behavior patterns of Japanese firms during the 1990s and find that relatively efficient (high total factor productivity (TFP)) firms exited while relatively inefficient (low TFP) firms survived during the banking-crisis period of...
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Baseline analysis of productivity changes with and without considering carbon dioxide emissions in the major manufacturing sector of Indonesia
Armundito, Erik; Kaneko, Shinji - In: Journal of Economic Structures 4 (2015), pp. 1-24
This paper provides empirical evidence of changes in the productivities of manufacturing firms in Indonesia over time, in the form of total factor productivity (TFP), from 1990 to 2010 with and without considering carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Employing cleaned and balanced panel datasets for...
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