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investigate how such a bank capital requirement affects the international transmission of productivity and loan default shocks … productivity shocks. Second, the contribution of loan default shocks to business cycle fluctuations is negligible under normal …
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The variety of goods imported to the U.S. has dramatically increased in the past two decades. This growth reflects a widening circle of nations delivering the same goods to this country. In some cases, the U.S. makes its own version of these products--such as Hershey's chocolate, which is...
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-manufacturing sectors could boost aggregate labour productivity levels by several per cent over the next decade in many OECD countries, and … legislation could also raise productivity growth for a while in many OECD and non-OECD G20 countries, although the effects are …
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paper, we explore the effect of economic growth driven by total factor productivity on Japanese debt in the face of higher … productivity, at an average of 6% per year, is needed in order for Japan to eliminate its debt. Since this is very unrealistic …
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paper employs a nonparametric Malmquist productivity index to provide measure of productivity, technological change and … efficiency gains over the period 1995–2005. The findings reveal some total factor productivity growth associated with …
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In many industries, firms usually have two choices when expanding into new markets: They can either build a new plant (greenfield entry) or they can acquire an existing incumbent. In the U.S. cement industry, the comparative advantage (e.g., TFP or size) of entrants versus incumbents and...
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this paper the productivity performance of the mature dairy industry in the Waikato region is investigated, using panel … data at the sub-regional level from 1994 to 2007. Overall we show that, under a range of specifications, productivity …
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1993 and 2001 have exerted on productivity growth. We give theoretical arguments explaining the impact of the real exchange … rate on productivity via its effects either on efficiency growth or on technical progress. Then for the twenty-nine Chinese … provinces we calculate the growth of the productivity and of its two components, using DEA Malmquist index. Finally we present a …
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mutual links between international activities of firms and productivity. It is written with a view to inform policy makers in …
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incentives; b) plans of assigning wages out of productivity; c) plans of distribution of profits and, respectively, d) plans of … employee motivation at the workplace, aspect which leeds to the growth of labour productivity, through this one being put the …
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