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United Nations' approach for measuring human development, Morris's index breaks social development into four traits--energy … century CE, when northwest Europeans tapped into the energy trapped in fossil fuels, did the West leap ahead. Resolving some …, present, and future economic and social trends. …
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United Nations' approach for measuring human development, Morris's index breaks social development into four traits--energy … century CE, when northwest Europeans tapped into the energy trapped in fossil fuels, did the West leap ahead. Resolving some …, present, and future economic and social trends. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011115242
others, the ‘era of free flow,’ the ‘era of limited flow,’ ‘energy conflicts,’ the ‘commercialization of arms exports,’ the … defy dogma and undermine the conventional creed; they challenge the dominant ideology and threaten those in power …; occasionally, they cause the entire edifice of power to crumble. For these reasons, the latent purpose of intellectual accumulation …
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The effects of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) are disputed. In this paper, we assess these effects using capital market data and an event-study approach, using a daily data set covering a thousand announcements spanning over eighty economies and a hundred RTAs over twenty recent years. We...
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We develop a new rationale for IPO waves based on product market considerations. Two firms, with differing productivity levels, compete in an industry with a significant probability of a positive productivity shock. Going public, though costly, not only allows a firm to raise external capital...
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This working paper reconsiders and adds to empirical evidence on the effect of federal government debt and interest rates.
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This paper examines the evolution of productivity in U.S. manufacturing plants from 1963 to 1992. We define a “vintage effect” as the change in productivity of recent cohorts of new plants relative to earlier cohorts of new plants, and a “survival effect” as the change in productivity of...
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This paper investigates whether a popular IO technology assumption, the commodity technology model, is appropriate for specific United States manufacturing industries, using data on product composition and use of intermediates by individual plants from the Census Longitudinal Research Database....
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The information systems (IS) "productivity paradox" is based on those studies that found little or no positive relationship between firm productivity and spending on IS. However, some earlier studies and one more recent study have found a positive relationship. Given the large amounts spent by...
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This paper is a theoretical and empirical investigation of the connection between science, R&D, and the growth of capital. Studies of high technology industries and recent labor studies agree in assigning a large role to science and technology in the growth of human and physical capital,...
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