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Well economics across ten tiers in low and high Btu (British thermal unit) areas, Barnett Shale, Texas
Gülen, Gürcan; Browning, John; Ikonnikova, Svetlana; … - In: Energy 60 (2013) C, pp. 302-315
granular public study to date because it is based on 10 productivity tiers and it treats low and high Btu (British thermal unit … oil and natural gas liquids. There is a distribution of productivity within each tier, with better wells requiring a much … lower price to be viable than the average well. The granular subdivision of productivity, low versus high Btu, and intra …
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Local intermediate inputs and the shared supplier spillovers of foreign direct investment
Kee, Hiau Looi - In: Journal of Development Economics 112 (2015) C, pp. 56-71
1/4 of the product scope expansion and 1/3 of the productivity gains within domestic firms. …
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Labour productivity in Europe: allocative efficiency of labour or performance of firms?
A. Berthou.; C. Sandoz. - In: Quarterly selection of articles - Bulletin de la Banque … (2014) 34, pp. 47-67
productivity at the sector level for several European countries. It uses data recently collected by the Competitiveness Research …
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Capacities and Absorptive Barriers for International R&D Spillovers through Intermediate Inputs
Foster-McGregor, Neil; Pöschl, Johannes; Stehrer, Robert - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2014
Abstract Trade in goods and services is likely to be an important channel for international knowledge diffusion. This paper considers the extent of R&D spillovers through intermediate inputs for a sample of up to 40 developed and developing countries. Results suggest that such spillovers are...
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Firm Productivity and Type of Innovation: Evidence from the Community Innovation Survey 6
Stojcic, Nebojša; Hashi, Iraj - In: Croatian Economic Survey 16 (2014) 2, pp. 121-146
Having recognized the impact of innovation for the improvement of productivity in firms and for the growth of national … on firms’ productivity across a number of East and West European countries, using a structural model based on Crepon … confirm the impact of innovation output on productivity. In addition, we find differences in the productivity associated with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011120281
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Competitiveness of the European Union: Pre-crisis Trends and Impact of the Financial Crisis
Disoska, Elena Makrevska; Nenovski, Tome - In: Economic Analysis 47 (2014), pp. 2-34
This paper has the aim to point out the risks of reducing the EU competitiveness by analyzing the indicators of price and cost competitiveness, as well as the structural and technological aspects of competitiveness. The influence of the world crisis on the competitiveness and export performances...
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Intangible assets and firm-level productivity
Crass, Dirk; Peters, Bettina - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
assets are conducive to firm-level productivity. Our study contributes to the literature by simultaneously comparing … productivity effects of innovative capital, human capital, branding capital and organizational capital and testing whether … econometric estimates confirm strong positive productivity effects of human capital and branding capital. Results for innovative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011122562
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The Heterogeneity of FDI in Sub-Saharan Africa – How Do the Horizontal Productivity Effects of Emerging Investors Differ from Those of Traditional Players?
Pfeiffer, Birte; Goerg, Holger; Perez-Villar, Lucia - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2014
This paper analyzes the horizontal productivity effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) from industrialized and …, and North Africa. We find strong evidence of horizontal productivity spillovers to domestic firms derived from foreign …-firm presence. However, these effects are clearly dependent on domestic firms’ absorptive capacity. The largest productivity effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011122746
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Human capital and growth in japan since 1970: converging to the steady state in a 1% world
Breton, Theodore R. - UNIVERSIDAD EAFIT - 2014
Annual growth in GDP/adult in Japan has declined from over 10% in 1969 to an average of 1% since the financial crisis in 1991. I show that a dynamic Solow growth model, augmented with human capital, weekly labor-hours, and oil prices, explains Japan’s annual growth rates from 1969 to 2007 as...
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The Heterogeneity of FDI in Sub-Saharan Africa – How Do the Horizontal Productivity Effects of Emerging Investors Differ from Those of Traditional Players?
Pfeiffer, Birte; Görg, Holger; Villar, Lucia Perez - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2015
This paper analyzes the horizontal productivity effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) from industrialized and …, and North Africa. We find strong evidence of horizontal productivity spillovers to domestic firms derived from foreign …-firm presence. However, these effects are clearly dependent on domestic firms’ absorptive capacity. The largest productivity effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011123766