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This paper investigates the relevance of the two leading theories for city-industry growth (i.e., specialization and diversity theories) in accounting for the fast yet uneven growth of industries in China's cities. Using the data set of 29 two-digit manufacturing industries in 231 China's cities...
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Nach den Ergebnissen des ifo Investitionstests Frühjahr 2012 zeichnet sich im ostdeutschen Verarbeitenden Gewerbe für 2012 eine Steigerung der Investitionen um rund 11% und für 2011 ein Zuwachs der Investitionsvolumina um gut 8% ab.
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Investitionen haben eine wichtige Rolle für das wirtschaftliche Wachstum einer Volkswirtschaft. Detaillierte Untersuchungen der Investitionstätigkeit von Wirtschaftszweigen liefern daher wesentliche Einblicke in wirtschaftliche Entwicklungstendenzen und helfen, Verschiebungen in der Bedeutung...
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Investitionen haben eine wichtige Rolle für das wirtschaftliche Wachstum einer Volkswirtschaft. Detaillierte Untersuchungen der Investitionstätigkeit von Wirtschaftszweigen liefern daher wesentliche Einblicke in wirtschaftliche Entwicklungstendenzen und helfen, Verschiebungen in der Bedeutung...
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Nach den Ergebnissen des ifo Investitionstests Frühjahr 2012 zeichnet sich im ostdeutschen Verarbeitenden Gewerbe für 2012 eine Steigerung der Investitionen um rund 11% und für 2011 ein Zuwachs der Investitionsvolumina um gut 8% ab.
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This paper investigates whether failure in innovation at the firm level can account for cross-country heterogeneity in manufacturing productivity growth. There is no strong evidence in the literature on the existence of such link. Our work, however, differs in a number of ways from much of the...
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Using the method of Caballero and Lyons (1990, 1992), I examine detailed Swedish manufacturing firm-level data on output and factor inputs from 1979 through 1994. Panel regressions show that an increase in aggregate output and inputs appears to raise individual firms production beyond private...
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The concept of the "employment thresholdin the public discussion of unemployment. The employment threshold is defined as that growth rate of output which is necessary to keep employment constant despite the continuous rise in labour productivity. It is related to the Okun coefficient which...
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This paper investigates the effect of market size on innovation activities across different durable good industries in the Chinese manufacturing sector. We use a potential market size measure driven only by changes in the Chinese income distribution which is exogenous to changes in prices and...
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Institutions are now widely believed to be important in explaining performance. In this paper, we analyze whether commonly used measures of institutions have any significant, measurable impact on performance, whether of countries or firms. We look at three 'levels' of institutions and associated...
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