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The Great Realignment: How the Changing Technology of Technological Change in Information Technology Affected the US and Japanese IT Industry, 1983-1999

Arora, Ashish; Branstetter, Lee; Drev, Matej - 2009

This paper empirically shows that innovation in Information Technology (IT) has become increasingly dependent on and … intertwined with innovation in software. This change in the nature of IT innovation has had differential effects on the …’s contribution in IT innovation and the differential innovation performance of US and Japanese electronics, semiconductors, and …

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Agricultural policy analysis in Finland with the AGMEMOD model: Lessons to be learnt?

Niemi, Jyrki S.; Kettunen, Lauri - 2011

(CAP) on the agri-food sector in Finland. To meet the objective, aneconometric model for Finnish agriculture - built as a …

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Modelling physical quantities of food and nutrients consumed from aggregate data – with an application to Finland

Irz, Xavier T. - 2009

Anticipating the impact of changes in economic incentives on dietary quality and nutritional health requires knowledge of how physical quantities of food consumed respond to price and income variations. A problem arises, however, because physical quantities are: 1- not consistent aggregates in...

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Industrial Competitiveness and Technological Advancement: Debate Over Government Policy

Schacht, Wendy H. - Resources, Science, and Industry Division - 2006

There is ongoing interest in the pace of U.S. technological advancement due to its influence on U.S. economic growth, productivity, and international competitiveness. Because technology can contribute to economic growth and productivity increases, congressional interest has focused on how to...

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Manufacturing technology policy and deployment of processing innovations

Ettlie, John E. - 1988

This is a report of a study on the evolution of manufacturing technology policy during the deployment of domestic advanced manufacturing systems in thirty-four plants and two panels of data collection separated by one year. Changing firm environment was significantly correlated with pioneering...

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LABOR PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH AND CONVERGENCE IN THE KANSAS FARM SECTOR: A TRIPARTITE DECOMPOSITION USING THE DEA APPROACH

Mugera, Amin W.; Langemeier, Michael R. - 2008

The objective of this paper is to analyze sources of labor productivity growth in the Kansas farm sector over the period 1993-2006 for a sample of 668 farms. The nonparametric production frontier method is used to decompose labor productivity growth into three components: (1) technological...

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Investments in energy technological change under uncertainty

Shittu, Ekundayo - 2009

This dissertation addresses the crucial problem of how environmental policy uncertainty influences investments in energy technological change. The rising level of carbon emissions due to increasing global energy consumption calls for policy shift. In order to stem the negative consequences on...

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Skill-Biased Transition: The Role of Markets, Institutions, and Technological Change

Peter, Klara Sabirianova - 2003

This study attempts to explain why the transition to a market economy is skill-biased. It shows unequivocal evidence on increased skill wage premium and supply of skills in transition economies. It examines whether similar skill–favoring shifts in the Russian and U.S. economies are driven by...

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Adjustment Costs, Learning-by-Doing, and Technology Adoption Under Uncertainty

Pavlova, Anna - 2002

We consider a variety of vintage capital models of a firm?s choice of technology under uncertaintyin the presence of adjustment costs and technology-specific learning. Similar models have beenstudied in a deterministic setting. Part of our objective is to examine the robustness of...

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A New Measure of the Producer Welfare Effects of Technological Change

Bullock, David S. - 2011

It is well recognized that the statistical reliability of the conventional method of estimating the effects of technological change on producer welfare is often quite poor. I present a method that enhances the statistical reliability of such estimates. I emphasize that when measuring the welfare...

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