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Micro Moments Database for Cross-Country Analysis of ICT, Innovation, and Economic Outcomes
Bartelsman, Eric; Hagsten, Eva; Polder, Michael - 2017
This paper provides technical documentation to a database built up from firm-level sources titled Micro moments … allows research that bridges micro and macro analysis. The paper delineates the type of research questions that uniquely can … available. The paper next presents the methodology underlying construction of the MMD and provides documentation of the rich set …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011586728
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Market power, productivity and the EU single market program: An ex-post assessment on Italian firm level data
Bottasso, Anna; Sembenelli, Alessandro - 1998
This paper provides empirical evidence on the impact the EU Single Market Program has exerted on market power and total …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608385
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Linkages between technology choice and exporting: Evidence from Argentina
Schmidt, Gabriela; Trofimenko, Natalia - 2010
This paper aids our understanding of the link between innovation and exporting behavior by detailing how firms may …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265955
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ТЕОРЕТИЧЕСКИЕ ОСНОВЫ АНАЛИЗА ПРОДУКТИВНОСТИ И ЭФФЕКТИВНОСТИ CЕЛЬСКОХОЗЯЙСТВЕННЫХ ПРЕДПРИЯТИЙ
Lissitsa, Aleksej; Babiéceva, Tamara - 2003
The main aim of this Discussion Paper is to acquaint the Russian-speaking reader with theoretical issues of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299426
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Innovation and growth with financial, and other, frictions
Chiu, Jonathan; Meh, Césaire; Wright, Randall - 2011
The generation and implementation of ideas, or knowledge, is crucial for economic performance. We study this process in a model of endogenous growth with frictions. Productivity increases with knowledge, which advances via innovation, and with the exchange of ideas from those who generate them...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279962
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The innovative input mix. Assessing the importance of R&D and ICT investments for firm performance in manufacturing and services
Rybalka, Marina - 2015
Business innovation is an important driver of productivity growth. In this paper, I assess the importance of R&D and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968571
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Capital-goods imports and US growth
Cavallo, Michele; Landry, Anthony - 2018
Capital-goods imports have become an increasing source of growth for the U.S. economy. To understand this phenomenon, we build a neoclassical growth model with international trade in capital goods in which agents face exogenous paths of total factor and investment-specific productivity measures....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012014429
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Measuring Productivity Dispersion
Bartelsman, Eric J.; Wolf, Zoltan - 2017
Measuring the dispersion of productivity or efficiency across firms in a market or industry is rife with methodological issues. Nevertheless, the existence of considerable dispersion now is well documented and widely accepted. Less well understood are the economic features and mechanisms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011662531
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Technological Trajectories and FDI: Top Bananas and Underdogs
Santos, Eleonora; Khan, Shahed - 2018
Previous empirical evidence searching for externalities from Foreign Direct investment in Portugal showed mixed results. Using a new database containing 5,045 Portuguese manufacturing firms grouped by technological trajectories, we investigate the occurrence and magnitude of externalities from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011917122
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Skills substitutability and technological progress : U.S. states 1950-1990
Ciccone, Antonio; Peri, Giovanni - 2003
In this article we estimate the long-run aggregate elasticity of substitution between skilled and unskilled workers. This is an important parameter as it allows us to compute the skill biased technological progress (SBTP) from the evolution of relative wages. However, it is hard to estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509429