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The diminishing influences of agricultural output changes on general price changes in China

Liu, Xiaoyun; Luo, Wanchun; Mao, Xuefeng; Wang, Xiuqing; … - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 2 (2010) 3, pp. 345-355

consists of production, final consumption, and market clear conditions. The results are generated with the GE model calibrated …

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An input-output analysis of the construction sector in highly developed economies

Pietroforte, Roberto; Gregori, Tullio - In: Construction Management and Economics 21 (2003) 3, pp. 319-327

Using OECD input/output tables at current and constant prices, this paper analyses the performance of the construction sector of eight highly industrialized countries - Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Japan and the USA - in the 1970s and 1980s. First, the main...

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The Food and Fiber System: Contributing to the U.S. and World Economies

Lipton, Kathryn L. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1998

Even though farming accounts for only about 1 percent of the total national workforce, it is at the core of the food and fiber system. The system is one of the largest sectors in the U.S. economy, and is comprised of industries related to farming, including feed, seed, fertilizer, machinery,...

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Entropy estimation and interpretation of the inter-sectoral linkages of Turkish economy based on Leontief input/output model

Özçam, Ahmet - In: Journal of Economic Studies 36 (2009) October, pp. 490-507

production coefficients of latest Turkish input/output (I/O) table, as new information about sectoral productions become … available. Design/methodology/approach – Both maximum entropy (ME) method, which estimates the technical production coefficients …

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Localized technological change, new information technology and the knowledge-based economy: The European evidence

Antonelli, Cristiano - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 8 (1998) 2, pp. 177-198

This work analyzes the co-evolution of new information and communication technologies and the knowledge-intensive business industry. New information technology affects the actual conditions of information, its basic characteristics of appropriation and tradability, favouring the role of business...

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Meta-analysis of net energy return for wind power systems

Kubiszewski, Ida; Cleveland, Cutler J.; Endres, Peter K. - In: Renewable Energy 35 (2010) 1, pp. 218-225

This analysis reviews and synthesizes the literature on the net energy return for electric power generation by wind turbines. Energy return on investment (EROI) is the ratio of energy delivered to energy costs. We examine 119 wind turbines from 50 different analyses, ranging in publication date...

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An Economics Approach to Modeling the Productivity of Computer Systems

Kriebei, Charles H.; Raviv, Artur - In: Management Science 26 (1980) 3, pp. 297-311

economics paradigm is to view the organization as a marketplace for computing and information services which contains elements … of supply and demand. In this paper our concern centers on the supply of services. A model of the production process for … process. Various measures of production efficiency are defined based on this model. The productivity of a computer system is …

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Economic impacts of ageing: an inter-industry approach

Albuquerque, Paula C.; Lopes, João C. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 37 (2010) October, pp. 970-986

ageing on the relative importance of industries in Portugal, quantifying the changes in production, value added, imported …

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Efficiency and utility: an evolutionary perspective

Mann, Stefan; Wüstemann, Henry - In: International Journal of Social Economics 37 (2010) September, pp. 676-685

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop the argument that the link between efficiency and utility was strongest in the twentieth century. This would not only explain the growing focus on efficiency in the past, but also suggest that the importance of efficiency in society is set to...

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Entropy estimation and interpretation of the inter‐sectoral linkages of Turkish economy based on Leontief input/output model

Özçam, Ahmet - In: Journal of Economic Studies 36 (2009) 5, pp. 490-507

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