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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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, productivity growth and capital accumulation. Moreover, there is evidence of a positive contribution to the process stemming from …
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This paper investigates the relationship between sectoral growth patterns and employment outcomes. A broad cross-country analysis reveals that in middle-income countries, employment responds more to growth in less productive and more labor-intensive sectors. Employment in middle-income countries...
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We evaluate explanations for why Germany grew so quickly in the 1950s. The recent literature has emphasized convergence, structural change and institutional shake-up while minimizing the importance of the postwar shock. We show that this shock and its consequences were more important than...
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We study how total factor productivity (TFP), energy prices, and the Great Moderation are linked. First we estimate a … negatively affected productivity. This spillover has since disappeared. Second, we show that within the framework of a dynamic … stochastic general equilibrium model, the disappearance of this energy-productivity spillover generates the significantly lower …
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productivity. We show that long-run growth estimates based on filtering U.S. productivity data comove strongly with long …-horizon survey expectations. By simulating the model in which agents filter data on U.S. productivity growth, we closely match the U …
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patent applications as a technology diffusion channel. Considering the relationship between research and productivity …The paper focuses on the impact of business related R&D spending on input factor productivity (IFP) using international …, international patent pattern reflects the link between the source (R&D) and the use (IFP). To estimate patent related spillover …
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economically and statistically significant impacton firm-level productivity and market value. Patent citations contain more …-Leverhulme patents dataset that we have constructed by combining information from the US Case-Western Patent database with UK company … (total factor) productivity and an eight percent increase in market value. As expected patenting and citation information …
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This paper examines Total Factor Productivity (TFP) and knowledge flows, using international patent data. The result is …-industry innovation enhances domestic productivity, and domestic between industry innovations are productivity enhancing. However, foreign …-sourced between-industry innovation has a negative effect on domestic productivity. This highlights the dual aspect of patents as a …
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