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Hausmann, Ricardo; Hwang, Jason; Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

When local cost discovery generates knowledge spillovers, specialization patterns become partly indeterminate and the mix of goods that a country produces may have important implications for economic growth. We demonstrate this proposition formally and adduce some empirical support for it. We...

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Trends in European Productivity and Real Exchange Rates: Implications for the Maastricht Convergence Criteria and for Inflation Targets after EMU

Canzoneri, Matthew B; Diba, Behzad; Fudey, Gwen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

explained largely by differences in productivity trends across the traded and non-traded goods sectors. We then analyse the … implications of the trends in productivity for the consistency of the Maastricht convergence criteria, and we discuss the pressure … productivity trends put on monetary policy in countries like Italy and Spain to meet the convergence criteria; we also discuss …

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Dynastic Management

Caselli, Francesco; Gennaioli, Nicola - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

-market failures and saving rates affect aggregate total factor productivity. Numerical simulations suggest that dynastic management … may be a substantial contributor to observed cross-country differences in productivity. …

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Human Capital and Productivity in Manufacturing during the Twentieth Century: Britain, Germany and the United States

Broadberry, Stephen N; Wagner, Karin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

overall production strategy and productivity trends. In the United States a strategy of standardized mass production led to … high levels of labour productivity and concentration on the development of managerial capabilities, but neglect of the …

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Regulation and UK Retailing Productivity: Evidence from Micro Data

Haskel, Jonathan; Sadun, Raffaella - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

We use UK micro data to explore whether planning regulation reduced UK retailing productivity growth between 1997 and … which increased the costs of opening large stores. This might have caused a slowdown in productivity growth if firms (a … productivity works out at about £80,000 per small chain supermarket store. …

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Microeconomic Evidence of Creative Destruction in Industrial and Developing Countries

Bartelsman, Eric J.; Haltiwanger, John; Scarpetta, Stefano - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

productivity directly, by reallocating resources towards more productive uses, but also indirectly through the effects of increased …

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Testing for Marginal Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment

Altomonte, Carlo; Pennings, Enrico - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

simultaneity bias in productivity estimates through semi-parametric techniques, we find that changes in domestic firms’ TFP are …

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What is the Value of Entrepreneurship? A Review of Recent Research

Praag, C. Mirjam van; Versloot, Peter H. - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

, and (iii) productivity and growth, relative to the contributions of the entrepreneurs’ counterparts, i.e., the ‘control … very important—but specific—function in the economy. They engender relatively much employment creation, productivity growth …

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Energy and Economic Development: An Assessment of the State of Knowledge

Toman, Michael; Jemelkova, Barbora - 2003

Energy development is an integral part of enhanced economic development. The fact that expanded provision and use of energy services is strongly associated with economic development leaves open how important energy is as a causal factor in economic development, however; and energy development...

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The Role of R&D in Productivity Growth: The Case of Agriculture in New Zealand: 1927 to 2001

Hall, Julia; Scobie, Grant M - Treasury, Government of New Zealand - 2006

Productivity growth is a key determinant of rising living standards. The agricultural sector has been an important … contributor to the overall growth of productivity in New Zealand. The average rate of multifactor productivity growth in … the 1980s. This paper estimates the contribution that R&D has made to agricultural productivity. It develops a theoretical …

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