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Distribution and growth in an economy with limited needs

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001

This paper studies a model of the distribution of income under bounded needs. Utility derived from any given good reaches a bliss point at a finite consumption level of that good. On the other hand, introducing new varieties always increases utility. It is assumed that each variety is owned by a...

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Distribution and growth in an economy with limited needs

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001

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Appropriate technology, human capital and development accounting

Chanda, Areendam; Farkas, Beatrice - 2012

Over the past decade, research explaining cross country income differences has increasingly pointed to the dominant role of total factor productivity (TFP) gaps as opposed to factor accumulation. Nevertheless, it is a widely held belief that a country's ability to absorb and implement...

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Total Factor Productivity Differences : Appropriate Technology vs. Efficiency

Jerzmanowski, Michal - 2007

Recent development and growth accounting studies have established that total factor productivity is an important source of cross-country differences in income levels and growth rates. This paper makes two contributions. First, it examines the sensitivity of the development accounting results to...

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Manufacturing the future : is the manufacturing sector a driver of R&D, exports and productivity growth?

Coad, Alexander; Vezzani, Antonio - 2017

Many industrialized countries in Europe and North America have experienced a steady decline in the manufacturing sector over the last few decades. Amid growing concerns that outsourcing and offshoring have destabilized European economies, policymakers have suggested that a large manufacturing...

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SME Performance, Innovation and Networking - Evidence on Complementarities for a Local Economic System

Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Mancinelli, Susanna - 2015

The paper addresses the relevancy of networking activities and R&D as main drivers of productivity performance and … performance. The complementarity with networking is a consequential step. Networking by itself cannot thus play a role in … networking are to be sustained and favoured. our evidence suggests that R&D may be a single main driver of performance. Since R …

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Market power, productivity and the EU single market program: An ex-post assessment on Italian firm level data

Bottasso, Anna; Sembenelli, Alessandro - 1998

This paper provides empirical evidence on the impact the EU Single Market Program has exerted on market power and total factor productivity in a large sample of Italian firms. By splitting the full sample on the basis of the ex-ante likelihood of being affected by the removal of non-tariff...

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Firms' differential innovative success and market dynamics

Cantner, Uwe - 2007

shares and the relation to their respective relative technological performance and to their or innovative performance are … investigated with productivity levels as a proxy for technological performance and productivity changes as proxy for innovative … performance. …

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Linkages between technology choice and exporting : evidence from Argentina

Schmidt, Gabriela; Trofimenko, Natalia - 2010

performance. The magnitude of the effect is large: a one percent increase in spending on technology increases exports by 30 …

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Strengthening competition in Poland

Égert, Balázs; Goujard, Antoine - 2014

Poland’s productivity has grown strongly over the past decade, and efforts to reduce the regulatory burden have been significant. Despite impressive progress, product market regulation remains more burdensome than in most OECD countries, partly due to the importance of red tape and the level...

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