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Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development:Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?
Sabirianova, Klara Z.; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 2005
advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476852
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Distance to the Efficiency Frontier and FDI Spillovers
Peter, Klara Sabirianova; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 2004
We establish that domestically owned firms in two alternative models of emerging market economies, the Czech Republic and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the distance of domestic firms to the frontier grew (in all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476861
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Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development: Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?
Peter, Klara Sabirianova; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 2005
advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic andRussia, economies that represent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476944
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Nominal and Real Convergence in Estonia: The Balassa-Samuelson (dis)connection
Égert, Balázs - 2003
The objective of the paper is to analyse the nominal and real convergence process in Estonia drawing on the Balassa … for the period 1993:Q1 to 2002:Q1 to show that the productivity differential is related to the GDP-deflator relative price …: we show that excluding regulated prices makes it possible to detect a robust relationship between productivity and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477083
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Recent changes in cross-regional convergence patterns
Auciello Estévez, Iván; Puente, Sergio
Rationale Economic convergence measured by income per capita refers to the process whereby lower income regions post … this phenomenon and investigate its possible causes. Takeaways •Economic convergence between the Spanish regions was … intense from 1980 to 2008, when it came to a halt following the outbreak of the financial crisis. •Labour productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014000064
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Productivity Growth and Convergence in Crop, Ruminant and Non-Ruminant Production: Measurement and Forecasts
Ludena, Carlos; Hertel, Thomas; Preckel, Paul; Foster, … - 2006
tests for convergence amongst regions, providing forecasts for farm productivity growth to the year 2040. The results …There is considerable interest in projections of future productivity growth in agriculture. Whether one is interested …, deforestation and ecological diversity, the rate of productivity growth in agriculture is an essential input. Yet solid projections …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009430328
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Discrimination and Skill Differences in an Equilibrium Search Model
Bowlus, Audra J.; Eckstein, Zvi - 1998
workers with the same (observed) human capital but different appearance (race): unobserved productivity (skill), search … school graduates implies: a) blacks have a 9% lower productivity level than whites; b) the disutility factor in employer …’s preferences is one-third of the white's productivity level; and c) 50% of firms have a disutility factor in their utility toward …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009447256
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Economic effects of a possible prolonged deterioration in the general health of the Spanish population
Hurtado López, Samuel; Izquierdo Peinado, Mario
Rationale The last year has seen growing demand for healthcare services, but the causes of this increase, and how persistent it will be, are as yet uncertain. Should these dynamics prove to be long-lasting and associated with a prolonged deterioration in the general health of the Spanish...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014283509
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Parameter estimation of structural dynamic models using eigenvalue and eigenvector information
Allen, J.J.; Martinez, D.R. - 2008
Structural system identification methods are analytical techniques for reconciling test data with analytical models. The response data frequently used to compare a finite element model and test data are the eigenvalues of the system. However, eigenvalues alone cannot assure an adequate model....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435739
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Convergence of construction costs in the single European market
Langston, Craig; Best, Rick - 2009
Several studies have shown evidence of price convergence between countries in the European Union (EU) since the … the coefficient of variation. The results show little evidence of price convergence for non-residential construction for … either country group. This is shown to be in contrast with convergence that is evident in the prices of other product groups …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441585