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)-based Malmquist Total Factor Productivity (TFP) index, this paper aims to examine the impact of regulatory reform on the performance … to indicate that, after an initial adjustment phase, the Indian banking industry experienced sustained productivity …
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The paper empirically investigates credit access and borrowing costs in Poland's rural financial market. We conduct an econometric analysis based on cross-sectional survey data including formal loans taken in the period 1997-1999. A hedonic regression of the effective interest rate, comprising...
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The aim of this paper is to empirically analyse the effects of governmentally promoted credit access on the investment behaviour of credit rationed farmers. This is done by specifying an empirical investment equation which is estimated on a cross-sectional sample of Polish farm household data....
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Many empirical studies have confirmed the positive impact of innovation on productivity at the firm level. The focus … on the other. To investigate the effect of different types of innovations on produc-tivity, we propose a model with two … a productivity equation. We find that ICT is an im-portant driver of innovation in both manufacturing and services …
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This paper studies the effect of individual uncertainty on collective decision-making to implement innovation. We show how individual uncertainty creates a bias for the status quo even under irreversible voting decisions, in contrast with Fernandez and Rodrik (1991). Blocking innovation is...
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While there have been studies conducted on technical and economic productivity of different upland production … developed and discusses the issues on land tenure, productivity of developing technologies and emerging policies and problems. …
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This paper uses panel data to examine the effects of foreign presence on firm level productivity in the Kenyan … that foreign firms dominated in virtually all the economic activities, including productivity performance. The analysis of … productivity determinants using a technologically profound approach produced a statistically significant role played by foreign …
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The paper investigates how sector composition and the magnitude of R&D investment in the EU may differ in 2020 in comparison to the past, if a selection of top R&D-investing SMEs were assumed to be on a fast growth track while the top R&D-investing large-scale companies continue to grow as...
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The 2012 "EU Industrial R&D Scoreboard" (the Scoreboard) contains economic and financial data of the world's top 1500 companies ranked by their investments in research and development (R&D). The sample consists of 405 companies based in the EU and 1095 companies based elsewhere. The Scoreboard...
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This Policy Brief presents recent results on the impact of training, marketing and design expenditures on European firms' innovative performance. The new evidence drawn from recent JRC research suggests that these expenditures, in combination with R&D, are crucial drivers of innovation. Drawing...
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