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the next five years. The reasons behind this slowdown differ across the region. Lower productivity growth drives the … productivity growth is key to unlocking the region’s higher growth potential. For oil importers, raising physical capital …
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Korea’s rapid growth has slowed in recent years, suggesting lower potential growth. This paper uses an array of techniques, including statistical filters, a multivariate model and the production function, to estimate Korea’s potential growth. The main finding is that trend growth...
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This paper assesses productivity trends in Canada vis-a-vis the United States from two perspectives. The first one is … based on estimates of total factor productivity. The second one decomposes productivity growth into two sources: investment … underlying cause of the pickup in productivity in Canada and the narrowing of the productivity gap with the United States. …
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This paper examines the empirical relationship between trade and total factor productivity (TFP) in South Africa. It …
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provides evidence of a significant and negative relationship between total public debt and productivity growth. Looking at the … specific channels through which high debt affects productivity growth and the allocation of resources in Jamaica, the study … excessively on a few maturing sectors with limited scope for productivity growth. Furthermore, public investment has been crowded …
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This paper emphasizes the importance of total factor productivity (TFP) developments in the nontradables sector to …
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This paper documents stylized facts on the process of structural transformation around the world and empirically analyzes its determinants using data on real value added by sector of economic activity (agriculture, manufacturing and services) for a panel of 168 countries over the period...
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real estate price indices for Germany either exhibit a low frequency or are available with a considerable time lag and thus … analysis for different real estate market segments. In this paper, we construct hedonic price indices for Germany, for five … Germany were under pressure during the financial crisis. However, more recently prices have been rising again, especially for …
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Wachstumsperspektiven einer Volkswirtschaft hat. So war der Produktionseinbruch während der Rezession in Deutschland von kumuliert -6 … Beitrag versucht abzuschätzen, mit welchen mittelfristigen Folgen für Produktion und Beschäftigung in Deutschland zu rechnen … ist. Dazu wird das Produktionspotenzial im Rahmen einer Wachstumsbilanzierung unter Zuhilfenahme von strukturellen …
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Energy consumption is a key factor in economic activity. To ascertain its role in economic growth, this study empirically investigates its role for Asian countries. Price index is also included in analysis as factor of economic growth. We examine and quantify this long run relationship for a...
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