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The Quantitative Importance of Openness in Development

Cai, Wenbiao; Ravikumar, B.; Riezman, Raymond - CESifo - 2013

This paper deals with a classic development question: how can the process of economic development – transition from stagnation in a traditional technology to industrialization and prosperity with a modern technology – be accelerated? Lewis (1954) and Rostow (1956) argue that the pace of...

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Modeling Institutions, Start-Ups and Productivity during Transition

Brixiova, Zuzana; Egert, Balazs - CESifo - 2010

The transition paths from plan to market have varied markedly across countries. Central and Eastern European and the Baltic countries, which opted for a fast and profound transformation of their institutions including business climates, rapidly narrowed the productivity gap with advanced...

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Exports and Property Prices in France: Are they Connected?

Egert, Balazs; Kierzenkowski, Rafal - CESifo - 2010

France has seen a marked deterioration in its export performance in the last 10 years or so. Previous empirical … research pointed out that weak export performance was due to i) vigorous domestic demand; ii) lower mark-ups due to head …. Our econometric analysis shows that the resource reallocation argument helps explain French export performance between the …

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Catch Me If You Can: Education and Catch-up in the Industrial Revolution

Becker, Sascha O.; Hornung, Erik; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2009

Existing evidence, mostly from British textile industries, rejects the importance of formal education for the Industrial Revolution. We provide new evidence from Prussia, a technological follower, where early-19th-century institutional reforms created the conditions to adopt the exogenously...

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Sources of the German Productivity Demise – Tracing the Effects of Industry-Level ICT Investment

Eicher, Theo; Röhn, Oliver - CESifo - 2007

) experienced negative TFP growth. This second major difference between the US and German industry performance explains Germany …

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Information, Coordination, and the Industrialization of Countries

Englmaier, Florian; Reisinger, Markus - CESifo - 2006

The industrialization process of a country is often plagued by a failure to coordinate investment decisions. Using the Global Games approach we can solve this coordination problem and eliminate the problem of multiple equilibria. We show how appropriate information provision enhances efficiency....

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Technology Agreements with Heterogeneous Countries

Hoel, Michael; Zeeuw, Aart de - CESifo - 2014

For sufficiently low abatement costs many countries might undertake significant emission reductions even without any international agreement on emission reductions. We consider a situation where a coalition of countries does not cooperate on emission reductions but cooperates on the development...

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Dynamic Models of R&D, Innovation and Productivity: Panel Data Evidence for Dutch and French Manufacturing

Raymond, Wladimir; Mairesse, Jacques; Mohnen, Pierre; … - CESifo - 2013

This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly been estimated on cross-sectional data. It considers four nonlinear dynamic simultaneous equations models that include individual effects and idiosyncratic errors correlated...

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Green Paradox and Directed Technical Change: The Effect of Subsidies to Clean R&D

Daubanes, Julien; Grimaud, André; Rougé, Luc - CESifo - 2013

We borrow standard assumptions from the non-renewable-resource-taxation and from the directed-technical-change literatures, to take a full account of the incentives to perform R&D activities in a dirty-resource sector and in a clean-resource-substitute sector. We show that a gradual rise in the...

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Endogeneous Matching in University-Industry Collaboration: Theory and Empirical Evidence from the UK

Banal-Estañol, Albert; Macho-Stadler, Ines; … - CESifo - 2013

We develop a two-sided matching model to analyze collaboration between heterogeneous academics and firms. We predict a positive assortative matching in terms of both scientific ability and affinity for type of research, but negative assortative in terms of ability on one side and affinity in the...

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