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Development accounting and international trade
Ishise, Hirokazu - 2015
Development accounting shows that a significant part of cross-country income differences is attributed to differences in total factor productivity (TFP), but the sources of TFP differences are not well understood. This paper considers the role of international trade to explain cross-country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011311201
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Time to Produce and Emerging Market Crises
Schwartzman, Felipe F. - 2012
The inventory/cost ratio is a measure of the time to produce and distribute goods ("time to produce") and, therefore, an important determinant of working capital demand. In the aftermath of emerging market crises, manufacturing industries with higher inventory/cost ratios experienced a larger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096505
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Development Accounting and International Trade
Ishise, Hirokazu - 2015
Development accounting shows that a significant part of cross-country income differences is attributed to differences in total factor productivity (TFP), but the sources of TFP differences are not well understood. This paper considers the role of international trade to explain cross-country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013017077
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Analysis of the Effects of the Global Financial and Economic Crisis on Consumer and Companies’ Behavior in Bulgaria
Zlatinov, Dimitar - 2016
The paper discusses core characteristics of consumer and companies' behavior in Bulgaria after 2008. It analyzes the changes in the structure of economic growth in the country, income sources and the model of individual consumption of households, as well as the behavior of companies and their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984324
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Shifting the paradigms in waqf economics : towards renewed focus on socioeconomic development
Abdullahi Abubakar Lamido; Haneef, Mohamed Aslam - In: Islamic economic studies 29 (2021) 1, pp. 18-32
Purpose This paper critically reviews and analyzes the trends in waqf studies within the Islamic economics literature. It analyzes the recent developments and debates in waqf reform and advances the argument for prioritizing research on waqf economics; the waqf dimension that is concerned with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012666771
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Modelling the Price of Industrial Commodities
Baldursson, Fridrik Mar - 1999
, investment in inventories occurs because of expectations of future price rises. The effect of inventory speculation is therefore … inventories of primary commodities. The predictions of the model are then compared to real data on the aluminium market. In a … inventories exhibit characteristics similar to the real series: volatile prices, asymmetric adjustment of production to price …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014178075
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The Augmented Solow Model and the Productivity Slowdown
Hamilton, James D.; Monteagudo, Josefa - 2001
This paper notes that the Mankiw, Romer, and Weil formulation of the augmented Solow growth model has implications not only for the steady-state growth rates but also for how these growth rates would change if there are changes in fundamentals. The analysis supports several of Mankiw, Romer, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014222193
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The Augmented Solow Model and the Productivity Slowdown
Hamilton, James D.; Monteagudo, Josefa - 1998
In an insightful and influential paper, Mankiw, Romer and Weil (1992) have suggested that an augmented Solow growth model can account for 80% of the variation in output per capita across countries due to different steady-state growth paths that result from differences in saving rates, education,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014063351
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Why Do Some Countries Produce so Much More Output Per Worker than Others?
Hall, Robert E.; Jones, Charles I. - 2013
Output per worker varies enormously across countries. Why? On an accounting basis, our analysis shows that differences in physical capital and educational attainment can only partially explain the variation in output per worker--we find a large amount of variation in the level of the Solow...
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The impact of foreign direct investment on Namibia’s economic growth : a time series investigation
Sunde, Tafirenyika - In: Cogent economics & finance 11 (2023) 1, pp. 1-15
2020 using the ARDL cointegration method. The results reveal that FDI, the interactive variable of FDI and trade openness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014500822