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Boosting growth and reducing informality in Mexico

Dougherty, Sean M. - 2015

Mexico has embarked on a bold package of structural reforms that will help it to break away from three decades of slow growth and low productivity. Major structural measures have been legislated to improve competition, education, energy, the financial sector, labour, infrastructure and the tax...

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Finance and productivity : a literature review

Heil, Mark T. - 2017

This paper surveys a broad range of studies and highlights the main findings of the empirical literature regarding business finance and productivity. Numerous studies analyse the productivity effects of financial development and frictions. The results suggest: 1) Financial development likely has...

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Innovation input and output : differences among sectors

Potters, Lesley - 2009

This research investigates deals with the impact of various innovation activities on innovation output by using Spanish … innovation activities lead to differences in both the propensity to innovate and innovation output, depending on the … technological characteristics a firm has. In general, internal R&D leads to product innovation, while machinery acquisition leads to …

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Mark-ups in the digital era

Calligaris, Sara; Criscuolo, Chiara; Marcolin, Luca - 2018

This paper examines the evolution of firm mark-ups across 26 countries for the period 2001-14. It also discusses and investigates empirically how this can be related to the degree of digital transformation in sectors. Four main facts emerge: i) mark-ups are increasing over the period, on average...

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Laggard firms, technology diffusion and its structural and policy determinants

Berlingieri, Giuseppe; Calligaris, Sara; Criscuolo, Chiara - 2020

This paper provides new evidence on the main characteristics of laggard firms - firms in the bottom 40% of the productivity distribution - and their potential for productivity growth. It finds that laggards are on average younger and smaller than more productive firms, and matter for aggregate...

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The impacts of robots on labour productivity : a panel data approach covering 9 industries and 12 countries

Jungmittag, Andre; Pesole, Annarosa - 2019

Based on the expectation that the intensified use of robots contributes to the growth of labour productivity, this paper presents estimates of Cobb-Douglas production functions, using data for 12 EU countries and 9 manufacturing industries. The empirical results for the models pooling all...

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Efficiency and growth in agriculture : a comparative study of the Soviet Union, United States, Canada, and Finland

Koopman, Robert Bernard - 1989

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How much Keynes and how much Schumpeter? : an estimated macromodel for the US economy

Cozzi, Guido; Pataracchia, Beatrice; Pfeiffer, Philipp; … - 2017

the slump following the Great Recession. Endogenous innovation dynamics amplifies financial crises and helps explain the …

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Complementarities in capital formation and production : tangible and intangible assets across Europe

Thum-Thysen, Anna; Voigt, Peter; Weiss, Christoph - 2021

This paper investigates capital formation with a view at various tangible and intangible assets across Europe. Using novel datasets both at macro and firm level, we estimate translog production functions to assess complementarities at different aggregation levels. At macro-level, our evidence...

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Trade specialisation and policies to foster competition and innovation in Denmark

McGowan, Muge Adalet - 2014

. Fostering competition by removing regulatory barriers and improving public procurement would help. In addition, innovation …

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