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The growth crisis of Germany : a blueprint of the developed economies
Berthold, Norbert; Gründler, Klaus - 2013
Germany has experienced tremendous growth rates in the aftermath of World War II. Since the early 1970s, growth rates … capital accumulation in Germany severely lags behind the average level of the developed countries. As this may explain the … moderate position of Germany in the group of the 25 richest countries, the developed countries in turn experience a period of …
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Parallel Development? Productivity Growth Following Electrification and the ICT Revolution
Edquist, Harald Olof - 2007
This paper investigates labor productivity growth and the contribution to labor productivity growth in Swedish manufacturing during electrification and the ICT revolution. The paper distinguishes between technology-producing, intensive and less intensive technology - using industries during...
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Reconstruction Aid, Public Infrastructure, and Economic Development : The Case of the Marshall Plan in Italy
Bianchi, Nicola - 2019
The Marshall Plan (1948–1952) was the largest aid transfer in history. This paper estimates its effects on Italy's postwar local economic development. It exploits plausibly exogenous differences between Italian provinces in the value of reconstruction grants they received. Provinces that could...
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Standards and Innovation : US Public/Private Partnerships to Support Technology-Based Economic Growth
Scott, Troy J. - 2015
This paper examines how strategic alliances to create and use standards affect economic growth and development. The explanation of the link from standards to economic growth and development is through the effects of standards on the incentives to perform industrial research and development...
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Understanding West German economic growth in the 1950s
Eichengreen, Barry; Ritschl, Albrecht - 2008
We evaluate explanations for why Germany grew so quickly in the 1950s. The recent literature has emphasized convergence …
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Understanding West German economic growth in the 1950s
Eichengreen, Barry; Ritschl, Albrecht - 2008
We evaluate explanations for why Germany grew so quickly in the 1950s. The recent literature has emphasized convergence … ; productivity ; Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003796129
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Understanding West German economic growth in the 1950s.
Eichengreen, Barry; Ritschl, Albrecht - In: Cliometrica, Journal of Historical Economics and … 3 (2009) 3, pp. 191-219
We evaluate explanations for why Germany grew so quickly in the 1950s. The recent literature has emphasized convergence …
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The long-term costs of government surveillance : insights from stasi spying in East Germany
Lichter, Andreas; Löffler, Max; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2019 - This version: August 2019
case of the Stasi in East Germany. Exploiting regional variation in the number of spies and administrative features of the … institutional trust in post-reunification Germany. We also find substantial and long-lasting economic effects of Stasi surveillance …
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The Role of Technological Progress and Economic Competence in Economic Growth: A Micro-to-Macro Analysis
Carlsson, Bo; Taymaz, Erol - 1991
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ICT diffusion and the finance-growth nexus: A panel analysis on ECOWAS countries
Alimi, Ahmed S.; Adediran, Idris A. - In: Future Business Journal 6 (2020) 1, pp. 1-10
In this study, we rely on the extension of the endogenous growth theory to consider the role of ICT diffusion in the finance-growth nexus theoretically informed via the supply-leading and demand-following theses. Motivated by cur-rent realities highlighting the significance of information and...
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