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Productivity Convergence in Manufacturing : A Hierarchical Panel Data Approach
Feng, Guohua; Gao, Jiti; Peng, Bin - 2021
Despite its paramount importance in the empirical growth literature, productivity convergence analysis has three problems that have yet to be resolved: (1) little attempt has been made to explore the hierarchical structure of industry-level datasets; (2) industry-level technology heterogeneity...
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Highway to Success : The Impact of the Golden Quadrilateral Project for the Location and Performance of Indian Manufacturing
Ghani, Syed Ejaz; Goswami, Arti Grover; Kerr, William - 2012
We investigate the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway project on the Indian organized manufacturing sector using enterprise data. The GQ project upgraded the quality and width of 5,846 km of roads in India. We use a difference-in-difference estimation strategy to compare non-nodal...
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Industrie : Produktionspläne weiterhin positiv
Gürtler, Joachim; Vögtle, Carola - In: ifo Dresden berichtet 02 (1995) 05, pp. 59-62
Der Bericht informiert über die Ergebnisse des ifo Konjunkturtests vom Juli 1995 für die Industrie in Sachsen und den … neuen Bundesländern. Danach hat sich das Geschäftsklima im verarbeitenden Gewerbe in Sachsen leicht verbessert und stellt … Bericht informiert speziell über die Situation im Grundstoff- und Produktionsgütergewerbe, der Industrie der Steine und Erden …
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Does Hedonic Price Indexing Change Our Interpretation of Economic History? Evidence from Swedish Electrification
Edquist, Harald - 2008
Rapid price decreases for ICT-products in the 1990s have been largely attributed to the introduction of hedonic price indexes. Would hedonic price indexing also have large effects on measured price and productivity during other technological breakthroughs? This paper investigates the impact of...
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Do hedonic price indexes change history? The case of electrification
Edquist, Harald - 2005
Rapid price decreases for ICT-products in the 1990s have been largely attributed to the introduction of hedonic price indexes. Would hedonic price indexing also have large effects on measured price and productivity during earlier technological breakthroughs? This paper investigates the impact of...
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Do hedonic price indexes change history? : the case of electrification
Edquist, Harald (contributor) - 2005 - [Elektronische Ressource], Rev. April 29, 2005
Rapid price decreases for ICT-products in the 1990s have been largely attributed to the introduction of hedonic price indexes. Would hedonic price indexing also have large effects on measured price and productivity during earlier technological breakthroughs? This paper investigates the impact of...
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Der Einfluss von Exporten auf die betriebliche Entwicklung
Mangelsdorf, Stefan - 2009
Exporte gelten als Wachstumsmotor der deutschen Wirtschaft und werden von der Wirtschaftspolitik auf vielfältige Weise gefördert. Doch führt die Förderung der Aufnahme von Handelsbeziehungen mit dem Ausland durch Betriebe, die bislang nicht exportierten, wirklich zu einem Wachstum der...
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The effect of exchange rate movements on heterogeneous plants : a quantile regression analysis
Tomlin, Ben; Fung, Loretta - 2010
In this paper, we examine how the effect of movements in the real exchange rate on manufacturing plants depends on the plant's placement within the productivity distribution. Appreciations of the local currency expose domestic plants to more competition from abroad as export opportunities shrink...
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Lifestyle production : transformation from manufacturing to knowledge based production using innovation
Dilling-Hansen, Mogens; Jensen, Susanne - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 4 (2011) 1, pp. 35-54
During the last decades, traditional manufacturing firms in Western economies have undergone a rapid transformation. Two effects of the globalised economy prompting firms to outsource labour intensive production to low wage areas are the increased market size and the competition. Innovation is a...
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On the relationship between innovation and performance : a sensitivity analysis
Lööf, Hans; Heshmati, Almas - 2001 - First Version May 2001, Revised October 2001, March 2002, December 2002
The objective of this study is to investigate the sensitivity of the estimated relationship between innovation and firm performance. In doing so, we rely on a knowledge production function approach and carry out comparisons in a number of respects. The sensitivity analysis is based on the...
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