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Potential switchovers in comparative advantage: Patterns of industrial convergence

Landesmann, Michael; Stehrer, Robert - 2000

Although there exists a vast literature on convergence and divergence of income levels across countries or regions at the aggregate level, there is only little work on convergence and/or diver- gence processes of productivity and wage levels at the more disaggregated industrial level. These are...

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India - Pakistan Trade

Taneja, Nisha - 2006

Quantitative studies estimate that potential two way trade between India and Pakistan can be about 10 times than its rather unsatisfactory current level of $ 613 million. Moving towards realizing this trade potential is clearly in the interest of both countries and the region. In this context...

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What Constrains Indian Manufacturing?

Gupta, Poonam; Hasan, Rana; Kumar, Utsav - 2008

India has undertaken extensive reforms in its manufacturing sector in the last two decades. However, an acceleration of growth in manufacturing, and a concomitant increase in employment, has eluded India. What might be holding the sector back? Using Annual Survey of Industries data at the...

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Aggregate Productivity Growth in Indian Manufacturing: An Application of Domar Aggregation

Das, Deb Kusum; Kalita, Gunajit - 2009

Productivity growth in Indian manufacturing is an important driver of overall growth, yet the issues related to its measurement have still not been resolved. The issue of how to compute an aggregate productivity measure holds significance for two reasons: one, the productivity of a firm should...

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Contractor safety prequalification

Philips, Peter; Waitzman, Norman - 2013

This safety-procurement tradeoff can be addressed by setting safety standards and then exempting selected activities and/or contractors. Or this tradeoff can be balanced by an informal or formal best-value point system that weighs, in each case, the relative value of contractor safety...

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Norwegian Gross Domestic Product by Industry 1830 - 1930

Grytten, Ola Honningdal - 2015

The present paper offers new knowledge of historical national accounting in Norway in several ways. Firstly, a new and novel set of annual gross domestic product series by industry are presented for the period 1830-1930. Secondly, the new estimates suggest revision of the historical national...

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Immigration and entrepreneurship

Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2015

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The road not taken: Competition and the R&D portfolio

Letina, Igor - 2014

Contrary to most of the literature, which focuses only on the level of investment in innovation, this paper examines …

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Technology cycles in dynamic R&D networks

König, Michael D. - 2014

destruction leading to the obsolescence of existing technologies. We quantify the innovation gains from collaborations, and show … economy. Our efficiency analysis further allows us to study the effect of competition on innovation in R&D intensive …

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The Dynamics of R&D and Innovation in the Short Run and in the Long Run

Peri, Giovanni; Bottazzi, Laura - 2003

innovation output as measured by patent applications. We first estimate a long-run cointegration relation using recently … analyze the impulse response of new ideas to a shock to R&D or to a shock to innovation by estimating an error correction … mechanism. We find that internationally generated ideas have a very significant impact in helping innovation in a country. As a …

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