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Decentralized environmental regulations and plant-level productivity
Ghosal, Vivek; Stephan, Andreas; Weiss, Jan F. - 2018
literature on the Porter Hypothesis, which posits a positive relationship between environmental regulation and "green" TFP growth … and enforcement. Our key findings are: (1) prudential regulation limits expansion of plants with high initial pollution …; (2) regulation, however, is not conducive to plants' "green" technical change, which provides evidence against the recast …
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Productivity growth across the world, 1991 - 2003
Kim, Sangho; Park, Donghyun; Park, Jong-Ho - 2010
We apply a stochastic frontier production model to data from 53 countries during 1991-2003 to estimate total factor productivity growth, and decompose it into technical efficiency change and technical progress. Our empirical results indicate that world productivity growth was led by fast-growing...
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Regulating Innovation : Competition Policy and Patent Law under Uncertainty
Manne, Geoffrey A.; Wright, Joshua D. - 2013
regulation, innovation, and economic growth, the process of innovation itself is not well understood. The regulation of … relationship between regulation - both through competition policy and patent law - and innovation, and the corresponding … uncertainty caused by this absence of knowledge. The relationship between regulation and innovation has posed a significant …
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Boosting Productivity Via Innovation and Adoption of New Technologies : Any Role for Labor Market Institutions?
Scarpetta, Stefano; Tressel, Thierry - 2015
This paper presents empirical evidence on the determinants of industry-level multifactor productivity growth. We focus on "traditional factors", including the process of technological catch up, human capital and R&D as well as institutional factors affecting labor adjustment costs. The analysis...
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The relationship between economic growth and democracy : alternative representations of technological change
Heshmati, Almas; Kim, Nam-Seok - 2017
This study investigates the relationship between economic growth and democracy by estimating a nation's production function specified as static and dynamic models using panel data. In estimating the production function, it applies a single time trend, multiple time trends and the general index...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704213
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Technology and productivity: a critique of aggregate indicators
Block, Fred L. - 2022
Economic analysts have used trends in total factor productivity (TFP) to evaluate the effectiveness with which economies are utilizing advances in technology. However, this measure is problematic on several different dimensions. First, the idea that it is possible to separate out the relative...
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Firm Productivity, Technological Heterogeneity and Endogenous Exports
Malikov, Emir - 2017
Exporters tend to be more productive than non-exporting firms, and uncovering the extent of these productivity differentials as well as causes thereof has long been one of the core topics in the literature. This paper focuses on the issues pertaining to robust empirical modeling of the intricate...
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A la recherche du tant perdu
Guellec, Dominique - In: Revue française d'économie : RFE 14 (1999) 1, pp. 117-169
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The relationship between economic growth and democracy : alternative representations of technological change
Kim, Nam-Seok; Heshmati, Almas - 2017
This study investigates the relationship between economic growth and democracy by estimating a nation's production function specified as static and dynamic models using panel data. In estimating the production function, it applies a single time trend, multiple time trends and the general index...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114598
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Are Technology Improvements Contractionary?
Basu, Susanto; Fernald, John G.; Kimball, Miles S. - 2015
Yes. We construct a measure of aggregate technology change, controlling for imperfect competition, varying utilization of capital and labor, and aggregation effects. On impact, when technology improves, input use falls sharply, and output may fall slightly. With a lag of several years, inputs...
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