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The study analyses the relationships between capital dynamics, productivity, global value chains and foreign direct … capital for productivity and GVC integration. We examine the extent of underinvestment in ICT in the EU relative to other …
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The paper studies the drivers of productivity at country and sectoral levels over the period 2000-2017 with the focus … intangible digital capital for productivity growth, particularly in the manufacturing sectors. While backward global value chain … participation and EU integration are also found to be instrumental for accelerating productivity growth, the impact of inward …
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innovation policy should focus on direct spending on research councils. -- Intangible assets ; productivity ; R&D ; spillovers … we use data on market sector productivity, R&D and non-R&D intangible assets, and public sector R&D spending. We look for … evidence of market sector spillovers from intangible investment and from public R&D. We find (a) no evidence of spillover …
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data on market sector productivity, R&D and non-R&D intangible assets, and public sector R&D spending. We look for evidence … of market sector spillovers from intangible investment and from public R&D. We find (a) no evidence of spillover effects … from intangible investment at the market sector level, including from R&D, (b) strong evidence of market sector spillovers …
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We show that an increase in aggregate uncertainty - measured by stock market volatility - reduces productivity growth … uncertainty, firms that are credit constrained switch the composition of investment by reducing productivity-enhancing investment … difference-in-difference approach using productivity growth of 25 industries from 18 advanced economies over the period 1985 …
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It is widely recognized that machinery and equipment investment intensity is less in Canada than in the United States. What is less well know is that it is information and communications technology (ICT) investment that largely accounts for this gap. The author documents trends in ICT investment...
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ICT and its spillovers on productivity in Canada, focusing on heterogeneity across provinces and industries over time. The …Research on the effect of ICT on productivity in OECD countries is already extensive, but the spillover and time …-digit level industries for the period 1981-2008. The findings show that ICT has a positive impact on labour productivity, but the …
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condition for the full realization of the productivity gains associated with ICT. Using aggegate data, the author finds … in order to benefit from the productivity-augmenting potential of ICT. One implication of this analysis is that despite … the current lull in investment, productivity growth in Canada should continue to remain fairly robust as firms continue to …
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behind slow productivity growth in Canada in the second half of the 1990s, in marked contrast to the acceleration of … productivity in the United States, and discusses the prospects for trend productivity in Canada over the next decade or two. It … concludes that the balance of evidence now favours an acceleration of trend labour productivity growth to the 2-2.5 per cent per …
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Living Standards. It points out that there now appears to be a renaissance in productivity growth in the U.S. service sector … large productivity gains in a wide range of service industries. …
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