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in many cases replaced them. One area ripe for the incursion of NTBs concerns technology standards. The WTO's Agreement …
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This paper introduces an economically meaningful concept of generality of an input and defines a coefficient of technological generality, an intuitive measure of congruence in the R&D required for improving the quality of various adaptations of a general purpose input. It is shown in a...
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Evolution of technology is a stepwise advancement of a complex system of artifact, driven by interaction with sub … society. This study explains evolution of technology with two different approaches: theories based on processes of competitive … substitution of a new technology for the old one and theories considering a multi-mode interaction between technologies, such as …
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Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain company and national productivity, or do they … size-weighted average management score. We present a formal model of "Management as a Technology", and structurally …
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Technology and technological change play a central role in economics, whether in the theory of resource allocation or … in the theory of growth and development. Yet the nature of technology is largely ignored in economic theory, it being … considered sufficient to treat technology as a constraint on productive opportunities. This short essay delves a little deeper …
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', with technology serving as a means to that end. Marx acknowledged the great benefits that capitalism's unprecedented … accumulation of surplus value. From this perspective technology in capitalism is, first and foremost, a means to capital's end …
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the traditional production model where technology is represented by a time trend. TFP growth is decomposed into … unobservable technical change, scale economies and observable technology shifter index components. The empirical results are based … exogenous growth factors are used in modeling four technology shifter indices to explore development infrastructure, finances …
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the traditional production model where technology is represented by a time trend. TFP growth is decomposed into … unobservable technical change, scale economies and observable technology shifter index components. The empirical results are based … exogenous growth factors are used in modeling four technology shifter indices to explore development infrastructure, finances …
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inestigates the sources of productivity fluctuations that are commonly interpreted s technology shocks. I estimate different types … of technology shocks from structural vector autoregressions and reassess the empirical performance of the standard model … based on second moments that are conditional on technology and nontechnology (preference) shocks. Most prominently, the …
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in labour intensity in low technology enterprises. The technological investments have a positive impact on labour …The goal of this paper is to investigate the impact of technology investments on production efficiency in manufacturing … companies and how different these relationships are for low-technology and high-technology companies. The empirical part was …
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