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Exploring efficiency growth of advanced technology-generating sectors in the European Union : a stochastic frontier analysis
Dzemydaitė, Giedrė; Naruševičius, Laurynas - In: Journal of business economics and management 24 (2023) 6, pp. 976-995
This study investigates the efficiency growth of advanced technology-generating sectors within the European Union (EU). Using a stochastic frontier analysis of annual sector-level panel data from 2000 to 2019, we examine sectoral (NACE two-digit level) and territorial implications. Our findings...
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Vertical integration and technology: Theory and evidence
Acemoglu, Daron; Aghion, Philippe; Griffith, Rachel; … - 2004
This paper investigates the determinants of vertical integration using data from the UK manufacturing sector. We find that the relationship between a downstream (producer) industry and an upstream (supplier) industry us more likely to be vertically integrated when the producing industry is more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292957
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A historical perspective on patents and industry growth in Finland: Connections and lags
Nikulainen, Tuomo - 2008
This paper aims to establish how the innovative activity in Finland has changed over time in the transition from a resource-driven economy to a knowledge-driven economy. The paper first takes a historical perspective on innovation and industrial activity in Finland through a descriptive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273069
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The transmission of sectoral shocks across the innovation network
Fons-Rosen, Christian; Pu, Zhaoxin - 2020
Recent innovation literature has documented the benefits of cross-pollination of ideas across a wide set of industries and technology fields in an economy. Industrial and trade policies, by contrast, tend to favor economic specialization through the promotion of selected sectors. In this paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012150167
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A historical perspective on patents and industry growth in Finland : connections and lags
Nikulainen, Tuomo (contributor) - 2008
provide weak signals of future industry growth. -- patents ; industry growth ; lags ; technological change …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003769934
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Decentralized environmental regulations and plant-level productivity
Ghosal, Vivek; Stephan, Andreas; Weiss, Jan F. - 2018
Using a unique plant-level dataset we examine total factor productivity (TFP) growth and its components, related to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011906240
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Dynamics of investment and firm performance : comparative evidence from manufacturing industries
Grazzi, Marco; Jacoby, Nadia; Treibich, Tania - 2013
If the relation between investment and economic growth is well established in the macroeconomic literature, the existence of a similar link at the level of the firm has been challenged by empirical work. This paper investigates the channels linking investment and firm performance in the French...
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Technological trajectories and FDI : top bananas and underdogs
Santos, Eleonora; Khan, Shahed - 2018
presence (measured by turnover) increases the Total Factor Productivity of domestic firms by 0.42 percentage points. Thus, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011936001
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Production risk, energy use efficiency and productivity of Korean industries
Khayyat, Nabaz T.; Heshmati, Almas - 2014
Korea imports all of its primary energy, which leads to high dependency and vulnerability related to its energy supply. Efficiency in the use of energy is a way to reduce dependency and emissions. This study provides empirical results of the stochastic production process in energy use. Special...
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Measuring and decomposing sources of productivity performance in India’s paper and pulp industry under liberalized regime : a nonparametric approach
Ray, Sarbapriya - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 5 (2012) 1, pp. 147-171
The purpose of this study is to develop a methodology in measuring productivity growth by decomposing it into technical … of liberalization on productivity growth of India's paper industry. Specifically, this study quantifies the level of … technical efficiency and technical change in this particular manufacturing sector. The paper applies Malmquist Productivity …
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