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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; Grover, Arti; Kerr, William R. - 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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Productivity and export market participation : evidence from Colombia

Casus, Camila; Díez, Federico J.; González, Alejandra; … - 2014 - This version: November 2014

Using evidence from Colombia, the authors study the relationship between firms' productivity and their export market participation decisions. Understanding the link between these two variables is critical for the study and design of policies aimed at achieving high and sustainable economic...

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Firm Product Scope, Oligopolistic Competition, and the Business Cycle : Evidence and Theory

Guo, Diyue - 2020

I investigate changes in product scope, the number of products that a firm offers, over the business cycle and decompose the impact of such changes on aggregate output. By using the Nielsen Retail Scanner data of U.S. consumer goods purchases for 2007- 2014, I find that firm product scope is an...

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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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Market Reforms and Efficiency Gains in Chile

Bergoeing, Raphael; Salazar, Andrés Hernando; Repetto, … - 2011

Starting in the mid 1970s, Chile implemented comprehensive structural market reforms. Using manufacturing plant-level data on Chilean firms for years 1980 to 2001, we estimate the role of reforms on efficiency. We analyze aggregate productivity constructed from micro data to find that in the...

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Lifestyle Production : Transformation from Manufacturing to Knowledge Based Production Using Innovation

Dilling-Hansen, Mogens; Jensen, Susanne - 2014

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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