Productivity growth accounting studies generally focus on productivity growth or decline in more developed countries such as the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) members. In this paper, we develop a generalized efficiency index for a much larger set of 57 national...

For several decades, the international community has aspired to integrate the social, economic and environmental dimensions of sustainability. Yet, no country has achieved the patterns of consumption and production that could sustain global prosperity in the coming decades. Thus, with the...

Global value chains (GVCs) have been a vehicle for job creation in developing Asia, but technology can also displace workers through automation or reshoring of production. We use an input–output approach to examine how employment responded to consumption, trade, and technological progress in...

This paper presents a comparative analysis of the Information Economy in Developed and Developing Economies using Australia and Papua New Guinea. The paper presents a methodology to extract the Information Economy from published Input-Output Statistics. It compares the potential of the...

This background paper provides a general picture of the characteristics and dynamics of Global Value Chains (GVC) in the Commonwealth countries. The main building blocks of the empirical analysis are based on a measure of inter-industrial linkages between and across between 43 of the 53...

This paper studies the question whether skill-biased technical change diffuses internationally and that way contributes to the increasing relative skill demand in other countries. So far, the role of skill-biased technology diffusion has hardly been studied empirically. Using new sectoral data...

We present new data on research spillovers between nations and between industries, discussing some theoretical and measurement issues. Our technique makes patent data more useful and practical for economic analysis, allowing analysis of the industries of manufacture and sectors of use for...

This doctoral thesis, organized in three self-contained chapters, provides an analysis of the economic effects associated with the extraction of natural resources and the transition from an economy based on fossil fuel use to an economy relying primarily on renewable energy sources. Chapter 1...

The aim of this paper is to measure and analyze the relative efficiency of commercial banks in two developing countries, the Republic of North Macedonia and the Republic of Croatia by using the leading non-parametric methodology for measuring performance, data envelopment analysis (DEA). We...

The paper presents a comparative analysis of the information economy as a function of the stage of development. Modified input-output techniques are used to compare the information economy of the developed and developing countries using multipliers, linkages and leakage effects. The empirical...