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Intangible Capital and Firms Productivity

Marrocu, Emanuela; Paci, Raffaele; Pontis, Marco - 2013

Firms competitive strategy in industrialised countries is increasingly based on activities such as the inventions of new processes and products, the improvements of the employees skill, the creation of a reputation for company’s products. All these actions intend to increase firms economic...

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An International Comparison of Productivity Change in Agriculture and the Economy as a Whole

Moutinho, Nuno; Machado, Fernado S. - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2003

is lower in the agriculture sector than in the rest of the economy. Using a stochastic production frontier finite mixture … stochastic shocks. This decomposition is investigated separately in the agriculture sector and the economy as a whole using a … productivity are driven by capital deepening. However, the results for the agriculture sector suggest that labor productivity …

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Cost of Living Indexes and Exact Index Numbers

Diewert, Erwin - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009

The paper reviews and extends the theory of exact and superlative index numbers. Exact index numbers are empirical index number formula that are equal to an underlying theoretical index, provided that the consumer has preferences that can be represented by certain functional forms. These exact...

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Investigating agricultural productivity improvements in transition economies

Rungsuriyawiboon, Supawat; Wang, Xiaobing - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 4 (2012) 4, pp. 450-467

Purpose – This paper aims to conduct inter-country analysis of agricultural productivity growth in transition countries in Asia and Europe. This paper pays particular attention to the magnitude and direction of productivity growth over different stages of their market reforms....

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Structural Reforms and Productivity Growth in Emerging Market and Developing Economies

Dabla-Norris, Era - 2016

This paper empirically assesses the role of structural and institutional reforms in driving productivity growth across countries at different stages of development, using a distance-to-frontier framework. It gauges whether particular policies and reforms matter more for increasing productivity...

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Competitiveness and specialisation of the Austrian export sector: A constant-market-shares analysis

Skriner, Edith - 2009

This constant-market-shares (CMS) analysis shows the development of competitiveness, market and product structure of the Austrian merchandise exports from 1990 to 2006. The traditional CMS application was transformed to a dynamic model, such that the static indicators have been replaced by time...

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Competitiveness and Specialisation of the Austrian Export Sector - A Constant-Market-Shares Analysis

Skriner, Edith - 2009

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25 Years of IIF Time Series Forecasting: A Selective Review

de Gooijer, Jan G.; Hyndman, Rob J. - 2005

We review the past 25 years of time series research that has been published in journals managed by the International Institute of Forecasters (Journal of Forecasting 1982-1985; International Journal of Forecasting 1985-2005). During this period, over one third of all papers_new published in these...

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On the multivariate analysis of the Lisbon process

Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas; Bajalan, Chemen S.J. - 2007

Starting from Professor Kornai's assertion about the necessity to focus on the long-term perspectives of the transformation process, we analyze in this paper the Lisbon performance of the countries of the European Union from such a long-term, structural perspective. We present in a simple form...

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Efficiency and effectiveness of social spending

Herrmann, Peter; Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas; … - 2008

In this qualitative sociological and quantitative economic policy paper, we start out from the assumption of a very recent European Commission Background paper on the Efficiency and effectiveness of social spending, which says the effectiveness of social spending can be defined by the degree to...

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