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Essays on network industries : privatization, regulation, and productivity measurement

Kuhlmann, Andreas - 2007

and regulation and productivity measurement of the German electricity industry in particular. The methodological approach … and politico-economic background of the German and the US electricity industries. The following two chapters provide …

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Does anti-competitive regulation matter for productivity? Evidence from European firms

Arnold, Jens Matthias; Nicoletti, Giuseppe; Scarpetta, … - 2011

Using firm-level data for a sample of European countries, we focus on the effects that product-market regulations have on firm-level TFP growth. We proxy regulatory burdens using the OECD indicators of sectoral non-manufacturing regulations. These allow accounting for both the direct effects of...

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Structural change and total factor productivity : evidence from Germany

Henze, Philipp - 2015

This paper uses a long time series of German employment data to test the theory of Ngai & Pissarides (2007). The theory suggests that the shift of employment shares from manufacturing to services is due to divergent growth rates of total factor productivity (TFP) in the two sectors. To test the...

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Electricity Consumption and Economic Development in Nigeria

Ogundipe, Adeyemi - 2014

The study seeks to investigate the relationship between electricity consumption and economic development using an … controlling for the role of institutions, technology, emissions, and economic structure in the electricity consumption … test to ascertain the direction of causal relationship between electricity consumption and economic development. The study …

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Can general purpose technology theory explain economic growth? : electrical power as a case study

Ristuccia, Cristiano Andrea; Solomou, Solomos - In: European review of economic history 18 (2014) 3, pp. 227-247

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Structural policies to boost productivity and inclusion in Costa Rica

Meehan, Lisa - 2018

Owing to past structural reforms, Costa Rica has enjoyed robust GDP growth and productivity levels are gradually converging towards the OECD average. However, large GDP per capita and productivity gaps persist. In addition, not everyone has benefited from this growth. Inequality has increased...

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Building a stronger and more integrated Europe

Caldera Sánchez, Aida - 2018

Europe’s economy is finally growing robustly. These positive developments provide an opportunity to renew efforts to meet the long-term challenges facing the European Union (EU). The EU’s record on reducing regional income disparities is mixed and this explains some of citizens’ discontent...

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Driving factors of growth in Hungary - a decomposition exercise

Kátay, Gábor; Wolf, Zoltán - 2008

Applications tend to ignore that measured TFP reflects the variation of output that cannot be explained by changes in inputs. Such a change is not necessarily technological, so measured TFP differences across firms are an amalgam of technological, efficiency and other differences in attributes,...

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Forecasting Aggregate Productivity using Information from Firm-Level Data

Bartelsman, Eric J.; Wolf, Zoltan - 2009

This paper contributes to the productivity literature by using results from firm-level productivity studies to improve forecasts of macro-level productivity growth. The paper employs current research methods on estimating firm-level productivity to build times-series components that capture the...

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Solow residuals without capital stocks

Burda, Michael C. (contributor); … - 2008

For more than fifty years, the Solow decomposition (Solow 1957) has served as the standard measurement of total factor productivity (TFP) growth in economics and management, yet little is known about its precision, especially when the capital stock is poorly measured. Using synthetic data...

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