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Recent trends in productivity: structural acceleration in the euro area and deceleration in the United States?.
Antipa, P.; Cette, G.; Frey, L.; Lecat, R.; Vigna, O. - In: Quarterly selection of articles - Bulletin de la Banque … (2008) 11, pp. 33-50
There have been sharp movements in productivity growth in the euro area and in the United States recently, upwards in …
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Alternative Paths of Learning: Standardisation and Growth in Britain, 1901-2009
Spencer, Christopher; Temple, Paul - School of Business and Economics, Loughborough University - 2012
Standards Institution (BSI), to collective learning and productivity growth in Britain. It discusses the pivotal contribution of … that this mode of standardisation has made a significant contribution to productivity growth in Britain. …
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Structural Development Accounting
Gancia, Gino; Müller, Andreas; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2010
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
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Quality change and implications for productivity development: Housing construction in Sweden 1990-2010
Borg, Lena; Song, Han-Suck - Institutionen för fastigheter och byggande, Kungliga … - 2013
productivity changes to be too low due to overdeflation. The aim of this study is to estimate productivity figures that take … increases in the residential construction sector in order to obtain more reliable productivity development figures. This paper … shows that measured productivity in the residential construction sector has been underestimated since 1990s. The findings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132249
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Crecimiento y competitividad: los desafíos de un desarrollo inteligente
Pérez García, Pérez García Francisco (contributor) - Fundación BBVA
España avanza hacia el final de 2014 por un camino en el que se observan señales positivas de corrección de los desequilibrios que han agravado la crisis y de recuperación de la actividad. Al mismo tiempo, se hacen más evidentes los enormes desafíos a los que hemos de responder para...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105352
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Sources of productivity growth and convergence in ict industries: an intertemporal non-parametric frontier approach?
López Pueyo, Carmen; Mancebón Torrubia, Mª Jesús - Facultad de Economía y Empresa, Universidad de Zaragoza - 2009
The present work decomposes labour productivity growth in ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) sector in a … & Timmer, 2005) is the theoretical framework used. Decomposition of productivity growth is carried out from a non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010627619
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Are systems of innovation in Eastern Europe efficient?
Kravtsova, Victoria; Radosevic, Slavo - In: Economic Systems 36 (2012) 1, pp. 109-126
This paper explores the determinants of productivity in the countries of Eastern Europe (EE) through the perspective of … systems in EE could be considered ‘(in)efficient’. Our results suggest that the EE countries have lower levels of productivity … an important distinction between technology and production capability as the drivers of productivity improvements and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010576209
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Structural Development Accounting
Gancia, Gino A; Müller, Andreas; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
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
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Analysis of International R&D Spillover from International Trade and Foreign Direct Investment Channel: Evidence from Asian Newly Industrialized Countries
Nursamsu, Samuel; Hastiadi, Fithra Faisal - Fakultas Ekonomi, Universitas Indonesia - 2013
channel with productivity (TFP) based on endogenous growth theory in Asian Newly Industrialized Countries (ANIC) in period … productivity. From the comparison of the two country groups in ANIC, it is found that in ANIC Tier 2, international R&D spillover … from export is not increasing productivity, yet its spillover effect is still significant. Another finding of this research …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010895833
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Embodied Technology Diffusionand Sectoral ProductivityEvidence for 12 OECD Countries
Strobel, Thomas - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der … - 2013
International specialization is a strong driver of sectoral productivity. This specialization is not only characterized … productivity effects stemming from embodied technologydiffusion on sectoral level. Therefore, based on the idea of Romer’s model of … productivity via use of high-tech inputs. For a sample of 12 OECD countries over the 1995–2007period, the empirical evidence of …
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