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We construct and estimate a unified model combining three of the main sources of cross-country income disparities: differences in factor endowments, barriers to technology adoption and the inappropriateness of frontier technologies to local conditions. The key components are different types of...
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productivity. This framework is based on a multi-sector general equilibrium model with sector-specific frictions in the form of … functions. Moreover, this framework is consistent with that commonly used in productivity analysis. I apply this framework to … measure to what extent resource misallocation explains the differences in aggregate productivity across developed countries. I …
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productivity (TFP). In this article, we summarize a recent literature — and the articles in this special issue on misallocation … and productivity — that focus on the reallocation of factors across heterogenous production units as an important source …
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In this paper, we construct and estimate a unified model combining three of the main sources of cross-country income disparities: differences in factor endowments, barriers to technology adoption and the inappropriateness of frontier technologies to local conditions. The key components of our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010710590
We construct and estimate a unified model combining three of the main sources of cross-country income disparities: differences in factor endowments, barriers to technology adoption and the inappropriateness of frontier technologies to local conditions. The key components are different types of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008756413
We construct and estimate a unifi…ed model combining three of the main sources of cross-country income disparities: differences in factor endowments, barriers to technology adoption and the inappropriateness of frontier technologies to local conditions. The key components are different types of...
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Spanish fluctuations exhibit two remarkable features: (1) productivity per hour worked is countercyclical; and (2) real … wage and productivity are negatively correlated, implying that wages tend to grow when productivity declines. The standard … understand productivity dynamic in Spain. The first exercise consists in an extended calibration of the Neoclassical model for …
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We construct and estimate a unified model combining three of the main sources of cross-country income disparities: differences in factor endowments, barriers to technology adoption and the inappropriateness of frontier technologies to local conditions. The key components are different types of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008854520
The aim of this paper is to assess whether the impacts of real exchange rate undervaluation and domestic technological capabilities on growth are stable across development levels. On the one hand, a real exchange undervaluation measure is constructed based on the purchasing-power-parity theory...
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