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How do firms adjust their output, inventories, employment and capital in response to demandsideshocks? To understand this, we estimate a reduced-form model using firm-level panel dataand we construct a theoretical model that can match the estimated impulse-response functions.A combination of...
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productivity. An important issue, therefore, is how to measure allocative efficiency. We compare popular indicators of allocative … productivity and to the Olley-Pakes (OP) covariance component, which is currently the most popular measure of allocative efficiency …
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International specialization is a strong driver of sectoral productivity. This specialization is not only characterized … productivity effects stemming from embodied technologydiffusion on sectoral level. Therefore, based on the idea of Romer's model of … productivity via use of high-tech inputs. For a sample of 12 OECD countries over the 1995-2007period, the empirical evidence of …
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productivity growth in Canada. Results suggest that the impact of a positive relative price shock will - in the adjustment process … - lower productivity growth in the primary and the non-tradable sectors, and increase it somewhat in the manufacturing sector …. The overall impact appears to be slightly negative on aggregate labour productivity growth, but this effect is only …
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cover essentially all firms in the Finnish business sector, we first document that labor productivity dispersion is very … market equilibrium and whether innovation subsidies can improve industry productivity by mitigating such a tax distortion. …
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productivity. An important issue, therefore, is how to measure allocative efficiency. We compare popular indicators of allocative … productivity and to the Olley-Pakes (OP) covariance component, which is currently the most popular measure of allocative efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010987367
International specialization is a strong driver of sectoral productivity. This specialization is not only characterized … productivity effects stemming from embodied technologydiffusion on sectoral level. Therefore, based on the idea of Romer’s model of … productivity via use of high-tech inputs. For a sample of 12 OECD countries over the 1995–2007period, the empirical evidence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877597
United States or Sweden. Nevertheless the contribution to the long run growth of labour productivity stemming from even the …
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This paper is dedicated to probing into the dynamic performances of industrial productivity across regions of … productivity) growth is decomposed into four components. The main results are as follows. First, since 1988, the industrial TFP … common shock to the industrial productivity, the eastern area with relatively few SOEs suffers the least from this policy …
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China is well-placed to avoid the so-called “middle-income trap” and to continue to converge towards the more advanced economies, even though growth is likely to slow from near double-digit rates in the first decade of this millennium to around 7% at the 2020 horizon. However, in order to...
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