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Rajan and Zingales (1998) use U.S. Compustat firm data for the 1980s to obtain measures of manufacturing sectors’ Dependence on External Finance (DEF). They take any differences in these measures to be structural/technological and thus applicable to other countries. Their joint assumptions...
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This paper provides an empirical analysis of decoupling economic growth and energy use and its various determinants by exploring trends in energy- and labour productivity across 10 manufacturing sectors and 14 OECD countries for the period 1970-1997. We explicitly aim to trace back aggregate...
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This doctoral thesis investigates changes in the volume and character of Swedish manufacturing sector innovation output … observations of nearly 4000 innovations is explored. It is found that innovation output is at its greatest during the economically … more novel than those of any other period. Innovation output observed in the relatively prosperous period 1994-2007 is …
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to use. The book takes the Netherlands as a case, but is hardly a book on productivity in the Low Countries alone. The … different contributors focus on the drivers of productivity that prevail in every modern economy, using the Netherlands ….E. de Groot -- Four sources of innovation and stimulation of growth in the Dutch economy / William J. Baumol -- Market …
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