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From fiscal stabilization to economic diversification : a developmental approach to managing resource revenues

Chang, Ha-joon; Lebdioui, Amir - 2020

The management of revenues from exhaustible natural resources involves a number of challenges. In this paper, we argue that the standard policy advice to managers of resource revenues has been dominated by short-termism and the lack of a perspective on economic development and structural...

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Mild Government Failure

Wei, Shang-jin; Xu, Jianhuan; Yin, Ge; Zhang, Xiaobo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

A relatively mild form of government failure - for example, bureaucrats can count but do not differentiate quality - can significantly affect the efficacy of industrial policy. We investigate this idea in the context of China's largest pro-innovation industrial policy using a structural model....

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Learning from experience : Special Economic Zones in Southern Africa

Makgetla, Neva Seidman - 2021

Special Economic Zones (SEZs) have become common across Southern Africa in the past 20 years. In line with experiences in the rest of the world, they have had at best marginal success. Their essential premise is that it should be more efficient and effective to establish an enclave with...

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Political economy of industrialization and industrial parks in Ethiopia

Kebede, Selamawit G.; Heshmati, Almas - 2023

institutions during three political regimes and assesses the industrial sector's performance across these different regimes …

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Strategic sectors and essential jobs : a new taxonomy based on employment multipliers

Cresti, Lorenzo; Virgillito, Maria Enrica - 2022

In this paper we propose a novel sectoral taxonomy integrating three different attributes of sectors, namely i) the strategic dimension reflected into their belonging to different classes of the Pavitt taxonomy, ii) the capacity to create jobs both internally and externally with respect to their...

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Sectoral Development Multipliers

Buera, Francisco; Trachter, Nicholas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

How should industrial policies be directed to reduce distortions and foster economic development? We study this question in a multi-sector model with technology adoption, where the production of goods and modern technologies features rich network structures. We provide simple formulas for the...

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Tell me who you patent with and I'll tell you who you are : evidence from inter-regional patenting networks in three emerging technological fields

Marsan, Giulia Ajmone; Primi, Annalisa - 2011

This paper presents an overview of co-patenting trends at the national and regional level in three technology fields (biotechnology, telecommunications and renewable energy), across regions in the OECD and emerging economies, from the late 1970s to the late 2000s. After a general introduction on...

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Works councils, training activities and innovation : a study of German firms

Cantner, Uwe; Gerstlberger, Wolfgang; Roy, Ipsita - 2014

Building on the notion of general and specific human capital proposed by Becker (1962), the paper highlights the importance of employee training practices undertaken in firms as an important tool for human resource and knowledge management and focuses on the role of works councils as a specific...

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Automation, digitalization and decarbonization in the European automotive industry : a roadmap towards a just transition

Cetrulo, Armanda; Dosi, Giovanni; Moro, Angelo; Nelli, … - 2023

This position paper outlines the characteristics of the trends at stake in affecting the twin transition in the European automotive industry, and the political economy of the actors behind such transition. We first describe the automation and digitalization processes in the automotive sector and...

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Impact of counterfeiting on the performance of digital technology companies

Butticè, Vincenzo; Caviggioli, Federico; Franzoni, Chiara - 2018

innovation performance of companies and can pose major threats to global competition and economic growth. However, the actual … impact of counterfeiting on the performance of companies has not been tested empirically, due to methodological problems … counterfeiting could have in part a beneficial effect on the performance of companies, due to indirect advertising, calling for …

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