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total factor productivity (TFP) of incumbent plants in the same county. We use the location rankings of profit … counties. This indicates that the ultimate effect on profits is smaller than the direct increase in productivity …
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relationship between inventive activity and productivity at the level of U.S. metropolitan economies, using a patents database that … with and Granger causes higher productivity in metropolitan areas. A standard deviation increase in patents predicts a 6 … percent increase in productivity over 10 years. Higher-quality patents enhance the effect. We attempt to identify a cross …
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cultivation practices. We introduce a method for properly attributing observed productivity and risk changes among new production …. Although most observed productivity gains appear due to farmer aptitude, the technology alone generates estimated average …
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What is the impact of integration on productivity? What are the main channels? Is there anything specific about … productivity effects in regional agreements? This paper tries to answer these questions by looking at the experience of Brazil and … Mexico. We estimate firm-level productivity and test its causal links with trade and FDI variables. The results suggest …
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Over the last decades, much attention has been drawn to the question of productivity variation across countries. The … differences in cross-country productivity could be explained by both foreign and domestic innovation. In order to estimate the … current empirical literature by determining the effect and the source of productivity spillover in Russia on the example of …
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This paper examines to what degree trade, FDI and migration promote cellphone usage in developed and developing countries. Since the usage of cellphones requires the installation of costly infrastructure, I analyze the intensive and extensive margin of cellphone diffusion separately. Estimating...
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, we measure total factor productivity (TFP) for farms controlling for land quality, rain, and other transitory shocks. We …
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This paper revisits the so-called ‘ICT-productivity paradox' from a long-run perspective by using annual Australian … data for about five decades. It provides estimates of long-run and short-run elasticities of labour productivity with … respect to ICT capital deepening, explores the nature of long-run causality among productivity growth and ICT and non …
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“Resilience” refers to the ability of companies to adapt their strategies in response to economic circumstances that change from time to time. This definition seems appropriate to explain the behavior of the Sicilian productive districts in light of the recent economic crisis. These...
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This study reviews and analyzes the changes in total factor productivity (TFP) growth in 12 Asian economies – the …
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