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What Have We Learned About Productivity in the Last Two Decades?: A Review Article on New Developments in Productivity Analysis

Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 4 (2002) Spring, pp. 53-63

What have we learned about productivity in the past two decades? In this article, Andrew Sharpe from the Centre for the … Study of Living Standards reviews a recently published NBER volume entitled New Development in Productivity Analysis, edited … of productivity research. Key recent developments in productivity analysis, as evidenced by the volume, include the …

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The Return to the Firm Investment in Human Capital

Almeida, Rita; Carneiro, Pedro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

In this paper we estimate the rate of return to firm investments in human capital in the form of formal job training. We use a panel of large firms with unusually detailed information on the duration of training, the direct costs of training, and several firm characteristics such as their...

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Using Firm Optimization to Evaluate and Estimate Returns to Scale

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

heterogeneity in productivity and factor prices symmetrically. The strength of the proposed estimator is illustrated by Monte Carlo …

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SCENARIOS OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN ROMANIA – MEDIUM TO LONG-TERM FORECASTING MODELS

Albu, Lucian Liviu; Roudoi, Andrei - In: Journal for Economic Forecasting (2003) 5, pp. 64-77

In order to obtain plausible scenarios of economic development in Romania up to 2010-2015 horizon, the authors use a mix of forecasting models, like „medium-term” ones and „long-run” models. In this respect three alternative models are used, a sustainability function model (for public...

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Using price and demand information to identify production functions

Jaumandreu, Jordi; Mairesse, Jacques - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This paper explores the use of information on the firm-level prices of the produced output and employed inputs, as well as on the firm-level demand relationship, to identify the parameters of the production function. By considering the system of equations which includes the demands for variable...

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Scenarios of economic development in Romania - medium to long-term forecasting models

Albu, Lucian-Liviu; Roudoi, Andrei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

In order to obtain plausible scenarios of economic development in Romania up to the 2015 horizon, we used a mix of forecasting models, from ones classified as “medium-term” to those covering longer forecasting periods. Based on the analysis of the economic transition period we mainly used...

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The Impact of Institutional Credit on Agricultural Production in Pakistan

Iqbal, Muhammad; Ahmad, Munir; Abbas, Kalbe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

Agricultural credit plays an important role in enhancing the agricultural productivity in developing countries like …

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Real time estimation of potential output and output gap for theeuro-area: comparing production function with unobserved componentsand SVAR approaches

Lemoine, Matthieu; Mazzi, Gian Luigi; Monperrus-Veroni, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

the trend total factor productivity. We asses this approach by comparing it with two other multivariate methods mostly …

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The level and growth effects in the empirics of economic growth

Rao, B. Bhaskara; Gounder, Rukmini - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Mankiw, Romer and Weil (1992) have extended the Solow (1956) model by augmenting the production function with human capital. Its empirical success is impressive and it showed a procedure to improve the explanatory power of the neoclassical growth model. This paper suggests an empirical procedure...

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A Brief History of Production Functions

Mishra, SK - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This paper gives an outline of evolution of the concept and econometrics of production function, which was one of the central apparatus of neo-classical economics. It shows how the famous Cobb-Douglas production function was indeed invented by von Thunen and Wicksell, how the CES production...

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