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Capacities and Absorptive Barriers for International R&D Spillovers through Intermediate Inputs
Foster-McGregor, Neil; Pöschl, Johannes; Stehrer, Robert - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2014
Abstract Trade in goods and services is likely to be an important channel for international knowledge diffusion. This paper considers the extent of R&D spillovers through intermediate inputs for a sample of up to 40 developed and developing countries. Results suggest that such spillovers are...
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China's March to Prosperity: Reforms to Avoid the Middle-income Trap
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Hill, Sam - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
China is well-placed to avoid the so-called “middle-income trap” and to continue to converge towards the more advanced economies, even though growth is likely to slow from near double-digit rates in the first decade of this millennium to around 7% at the 2020 horizon. However, in order to...
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The Economics of Climate Change and Science of Global Warming Debate:African Perspectives
Nwaobi, Godwin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
general equilibrium model, this paper argues that climate change will negatively affect agricultural productivity in Africa …
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China's Foreign Trade: Perspectives From the Past 150 Years
Keller, Wolfgang; Li, Ben; Shiue, Carol H. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
This paper studies the trade of China in the past 150 years, starting from the first opening of China after the Opium War. The main purpose of the paper is to identify what is (and was) China's 'normal' level of foreign trade, and how these levels changed under different trade regimes, from 1840...
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The Flying Geese Paradigm: A critical study of its application to East Asian regional development
Kasahara, Shigehisa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
It is often claimed that what is popularly known as the "flying geese paradigm" of dynamic comparative advantage has accurately depicted the East Asian catching-up process. This paper presents a critical study of the paradigm, as well as its application to the current situation in East Asia...
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Central and East European Industry in an Enlarged European Union: Restructuring, Specialisation and Catching-up
Havlik, Peter - In: Economie Internationale (2005) 102, pp. 107-132
identifies sectors where productivity catch-up has been most pronounced. This paper attempts to outline the emerging position of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005022488
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Determinants of the Comparative Advantage and of the Performance of Mexico’s Manufacturing Exports During 1996-2005
Amoroso, Nicolás; Chiquiar, Daniel; Quella, Núria; … - Banco de México - 2008
-à-vis its closest competitors, are related with productivity differentials or with differences in factor endowments. The … most important determinant of Mexico´s comparative advantages and export performance seems to be productivity differentials …
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Industry Structure and Productivity Growth: Panel Data Evidence for Germany from 1971–2000
Fuchs, Thomas - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der … - 2005
The paper presents a detailed industry-level productivity analysis (52 industries) for the effects of industry … industry structure and productivity growth of an industry. The analysis reveals positive effects of vertically disintegrated … analysis is the recently collected productivity database for Germany. The Ifo Productivity Database, which is unique due to its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005046843
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Bérkonvergencia az EU-csatlakozás előtt és után: gazdasági összefüggések, tapasztalatok és lehetséges fejlődési pályák
Gács, János; Hárs, Ágnes; Hüttl, Antónia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
The article analyzes the requirement recently formulated by different parties of the accession process: the candidate countries should raise their wage level close to the average of the EU even before they join the union. The authors show that wage convergence, defined this way, has no...
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High Employment with Low Productivity? The Service Sector as a Determinant of Economic Development
Breitenfellner, Andreas; Hildebrandt, Antje - In: Monetary Policy & the Economy (2006) 1, pp. 110-135
's contribution to the development of employment and productivity between 1983 and 2003 illuminates the prevailing productivity gap … geographic regions. The process of tertiarization is compatible with growth in both employment and productivity. Different … discusses the role of the European Union's Lisbon strategy in enhancing the productivity of the service sector. …
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