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Technical Change and Total Factor Productivity Growth for Chinese Provinces: A Panel Data Analysis

Shiu, Alice; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We present in this paper the panel econometrics estimation approach of measuring the technical change and total factor productivity (TFP) growth of 30 Chinese provinces during the period of 1993 to 2003. The random effects model with heteroscedastic variances has been used for the estimation of...

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On the Causality between GDP and Health Care Expenditure in Augmented Solow Growth Model

Heshmati, Almas - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2001

This paper examines conditional convergence of OECD countries in gross domestic product (GDP) and health care expenditure (HCE) per capita. It presents estimation of the augmented Solow growth model suggested by Mankiw, Romer and Weil (1992) to explain variation in output and expenditure per...

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A Survey of the Role of Fiscal Policy in Addressing Income Inequality, Poverty Reduction and Inclusive Growth

Heshmati, Almas; Kim, Jungsuk - 2014

A growing concern on widening income gap between the rich and the poor, the policy mismatch in tackling the relative poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient growth. Developed countries have experienced the...

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Technical Change and Total Factor Productivity Growth for Chinese Provinces: A Panel Data Analysis

Shiu, Alice; Heshmati, Almas - Ratioinstitutet - 2006

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Productivity Growth, Efficiency and Outsourcing in Manufacturing and Service Industries

Heshmati, Almas - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2000

This paper is a survey of recent contributions to, and developments of, the relationship between outsourcing …, efficiency and productivity growth in manufacturing and services. The objective is to provide a thorough and up-to-date survey …-specific modelling are discussed. Second, we survey the econometric approach to efficiency analysis. The issues of modelling …

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Review of the Recent Trends in Development Economics Research: With Experience from the Federal Region of Kurdistan

Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This study is a review of the recent trends in development economics research. The focus is on the development in the recent decades as a result of increased globalization of knowledge, technologies and economies. In particular I look at the development in a number area where similar trends are...

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Service Sector Development and its Determinants in Rwanda

Uwitonze, Eric; Heshmati, Almas - 2016

based on micro-data collected during the Rwanda Enterprise Survey 2011 and the 2014 Establishment Census. The survey has …

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Service sector development and its determinants in Rwanda

Uwitonze, Eric; Heshmati, Almas - 2016

based on micro-data collected during the Rwanda Enterprise Survey 2011 and the 2014 Establishment Census. The survey has …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011520971

Estimation of technical change and TFP growth based on observable technology shifters

Heshmati, Almas; Rashidghalam, Masoomeh - 2017

This paper models and estimates total factor productivity (TFP) growth parametrically. The model is a generalization of the traditional production model where technology is represented by a time trend. TFP growth is decomposed into unobservable technical change, scale economies and observable...

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Technical change and total factor productivity growth : the case of Chinese provinces

Heshmati, Almas; Kumbhakar, Subal - 2010

In the literature technical change is mostly assumed to be exogenous and specified as a function of time. However, some exogenous external factors other than time can also affect technical change. In this paper we model technical change via time trend (purely external non-economic) as well as...

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