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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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Oil prices and their effect on potential output

Estrada García, Angel; Hernández de Cos, Pablo - 2009

how that is affecting the size distribution of firms. The main innovation of this paper is to use a rich database that …

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Price-cost mark-ups in the Spanish economy : a microeconomic perspective

Montero Montero, José Manuel; Urtasun Amann, Alberto - 2014

This paper explores the dynamics of price-cost mark-ups using firm-level data, paying particular attention to the crisis period 2008-2011. To this end, we apply the econometric framework developed by Klette (1999) to a comprehensive sample of Spanish non-financial corporations in order to...

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Why did high productivity growth of banks preced the financial crisis?

Martín Oliver, Alfredo; Ruano Pardo, Sonia; Salas … - 2012

The observed high levels of banks’ operating effi ciency, profi ts and market values in the years before the fi nancial crisis raise reasonable doubts about the information content of conventional performance measures for the accurate assessment of the effi ciency of banking intermediation. In...

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Heterogeneity of markups at the firm level and changes during the Great Recession : the case of Spain

Fernández Vidaurreta, Cristina; Lacuesta Gabarain, Aitor; … - 2015

Incorporamos heterogeneidad empresarial en productividad dentro del marco de estimación tradicional de márgenes desarrollado por Roeger (1995) y ampliado por Crépon et al. (2005) para dar cabida a fricciones en la negociación salarial. Calculamos márgenes a escala de empresa con un panel...

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The Impact of CO2 Emission Cuts on Income

Zhao, Xiaobing - 2011

We study how carbon dioxide (CO2) emission cuts affect income for 23 OECD countries over the 1980-2004 period. The importance of this question is manifested in the disagreements at the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen and the 2010 State of the Union Address by United...

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A Nonparametric Kernel Representation of the Agricultural Production Function: Implications for Economic Measures of Technology

Livanis, Grigorios T.; Salois, Matthew J.; Moss, Charles B. - 2009

The issue of production function estimation has received recent attention, particularly in agricultural economics with the advent of precision farming. Yet, the evidence to date is far from unanimous on theproper form of the production function. This paper reexamines the use ofthe primal...

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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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