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This study provides country-specific empirical evidence on the optimal inflation-growth threshold in the WAMZ over the period 1996-2021. Although there is large empirical literature on this subject, however, previous studies on the WAMZ economies generally focused on exogenous approaches of...
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Inflation and inflation uncertainty are critical factors influencing the functioning of markets and thus the efficient flow of economic activities. In this study, we investigated the effects of inflation and inflation uncertainty on growth in Ghana. Unlike the majority of the previous studies,...
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of the high productivity level in 2007. However, the measurement of profitability and the quality of price components …This study conducts an international comparison of productivity and profitability. First, the level and growth of … productivity are compared in OECD countries for the period from 1975 to 2009. According to this comparison, productivity growth has …
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of the high productivity level in 2007. However, the measurement of profitability and the quality of price components …This study conducts an international comparison of productivity and profitability. First, the level and growth of … productivity are compared in OECD countries for the period from 1975 to 2009. According to this comparison, productivity growth has …
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productivity growth based on growth accounting and econometric estimation of production functions. The growth accounting … contribution of intangibles to labor productivity growth is generally highest in manufacturing and finance. The estimated output …
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productivity growth. The sectoral setting further allows us to identify the differential impacts of intangible capital across …
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This paper investigates the effects of the education level, product market rigidities and employment protection legislation on growth. It exploits macro-panel data for OECD countries. For countries close to the technological frontier, education and rigidities are significantly related to TFP...
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aggregate productivity growth. This paper extends our understanding of industry differences in the competitive process by … examining firm turnover and productivity growth in various services industries in Canada and situating them relative to … entrants are relatively large at birth, the penalty for entry at suboptimal size or productivity is higher. The reallocation …
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This paper assesses the evolution of output and productivity in the Greek banking industry for the period 1990 …-2006. Three main categories of bank output were estimated based on modern theoretical approaches, while for the estimation of … output and productivity (partial and total factor) we relied on the index number method (Tornqvist index). We also considered …
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productivity convergence among euro area countries. While no convergence can be found on the aggregate level, selected service … sectors and manufacturing sub-industries indicate evidence of convergence. In a search for factors influencing productivity …
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