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Changes in total factor productivity and its causative factors in Japanese agriculture
Kunimitsu, Yoji - 2011
Agricultural public facilities for irrigation and drainage play an important role in Japanese agriculture, especially in paddy production. However, the budget for renovation of old facilities was drastically cut in 2010. For prolonging life time and decreasing lifecycle costs of public...
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Long-run relationship between crop-biodiversity and cereal production under the CAP reform : evidence from Italian regions
Gatto, Elisa; Signorino, Guido - 2011
Biodiversity has a prominent role in defining and preserving ecosystem well-being; the analysis of biodiversity effects on agricultural production is well documented. The paper offers empirical evidence on the role of intra-species biodiversity in sustaining cereal production within Italian...
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Urban agglomeration and the aggregate economic growth
Pérez Ximénez-De-Embún, Domingo; Sanso Frago, Marcos - 2011
This paper presents a theoretical approach to solve the main problems faced to explain the relationship between aggregate economic growth and the urban structure. The most significant conclusion reached is that there is a theoretical relationship between aggregate economic growth and urban...
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Human capital, R&D and productivity convergence of European regions : a spatial analysis of RHOMOLO's semi endogenous growth approach.
Manca, Fabio; Piroli, Giuseppe - 2011 - Very preliminary
The aim of the paper is to test the Benhabib and Spiegel (2005) productivity (TFP) catch-up framework on European …
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Productivity and performance of Finnish and Norwegian dairy farms : does EU membership matter?
Sipiläinen, Timo; Lien, Gudbrand; Kumbhakar, Subal; … - 2011 - Preliminary version
paper, we explore development and differences in productivity and efficiency trends in the two countries before and after … introduction of milk quotas, and more generally, changes in agricultural policy and macro-economic factors. We model productivity …
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A spatial panel data version of the knowledge capital model
Bekesi, Daniel; Hammer, Christoph; Koch, Matthias; … - 2011
This paper attempts to analyze the impact of knowledge and knowledge spillovers on regional total factor productivity …
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Deciphering the effects of agglomeration economies on firms' productive efficiency
Skuras, Dimitrios; Tsekouras, Kostas; Dimara, Efthalia - 2011
The present work assess the effects of MAR and Jacob's type agglomeration economies on a sample of firms in the machineries and textiles industries in Greece for the periods 1989-91 and 1999-01. The analysis employs a stochastic production frontier function and allows agglomeration economies to...
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Structural change, productivity growth and Structural Funds in European regions
Pontarollo, Nicola - 2013
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Agricultural productivity and off-farm labor decisions by heads and spouses in Nicaragua : a semiparametric analysis using panel data
Almeida, Alexandre Nunes de; Bravo-Ureta, Boris E. - 2011
their spouses play a major role in the supply of labor to off-farm activities. When the marginal productivity of …
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Impact of information technology investments on firm productivity in peripherals countries : the case of Portugal
Guerreiro, António; Guerreiro, Gertrudes Saudés - 2015
the productivity of IT became known as the 'productivity paradox'. As Robert Solow, the Nobel laureate economist stated … "we see computers everywhere except in the productivity statistics". An important stream of research conducted all over … understand the impact of Information Technology adoption on the productivity of those firms. Using data from two surveys …
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