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Knowledge Coherence, Variety and Productivity Growth: Manufacturing Evidence from Italian Regions

Quatraro, Francesco - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2009

This paper analyzes the effects of the evolution of knowledge base in the manufacturing sectors on regional productivity growth. Knowledge is viewed as a heterogeneous asset, and an evolutionary perspective is adopted. The results of the empirical estimations corroborate the hypothesis that...

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Intra- and Inter-Industry Productivity Spillovers in OECD Manufacturing: A Spatial Econometric Perspective

Badinger, Harald; Egger, Peter - CESifo - 2008

We adopt a spatial econometric approach to estimate intra- and inter-industry productivity spillovers in total factor productivity transmitted through input-output relations in a sample of 13 OECD countries and 15 manufacturing industries. Both R&D spillovers as well as remainder,...

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Real Wage Chronologies

Christofides, Louis; Peng, Amy Chen - CESifo - 2007

We process information in a large number of wage contracts, signed over a period of several decades, to generate the long-run history of the real wage for each bargaining pair. We term these hitherto unexamined histories ‘chronologies’. We are able to generate 1574 continuous real wage...

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Productivity Differences in OECD Countries

Pascual, Antonio I. Garcia - CESifo - 2000

This paper investigates cross-country productivity convergence at a sectoral level using multivariate unit-root tests … data. Third, when the null hypothesis of non convergence is rejected, a second test determines the number of converging … countries. Based on a sample of thirteen OECD countries our results show evidence of convergence in three out of six sectors …

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Nominal and Real Exchange Rate Models in South Africa: How Robust are they?

Egert, Balazs - CESifo - 2012

This paper addresses difficulties in modelling exchange rates in South Africa. Real exchange rate models of earlier research seem to be sensitive to the sample period considered, alternative variable definition, data frequency and estimation methods. Alternative exchange rate models proposed in...

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Real Exchange Rates in Small Open OECD and Transition Economies: Comparing Apples with Oranges?

Egert, Balazs; Lommatzsch, Kirsten; Lahrèche-Révil, Amina - CESifo - 2007

We find that productivity gains in tradables cause an appreciation of the real exchange rate via both tradable and nontradable prices in the CEE-5 and have no affect in the Baltic countries, while they lead to a depreciation of the real exchange rate of tradables in OECD economies that...

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Productivity of and Returns to Knowledge Investments

Andersson, Åke E - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009

Information and knowledge are essential to the decision making of firms. However, information is a primitive in the formation of knowledge. Information and the related concepts of risk and surprise are primarily of importance for rational decision making while knowledge is a form of...

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Firm Strategy, Location and MNE-networks

Lööf, Hans; Johansson, Borje - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2010

This paper asks three explicit questions, where the first one concerns the impact of a firm’s choice of innovation strategy and knowledge resources. The study aims at confirming that firms with a strategy with R&D persistency have a markedly higher productivity, profitability and wage level...

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Creative Destruction and Productivity – entrepreneurship by type, sector and sequence

Andersson, Martin; Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Thulin, Per - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2011

Schumpeter claimed the entrepreneur to be instrumental for creative destruction and industrial dynamics. Entrepreneurial entry serves to transform and revitalize industries, thereby enhancing their competiveness. This paper investigates if entry of new firms influences productivity amongst...

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Spatial Density and Productivity – an analysis on one-by-one kilometer squares

Andersson, Martin; Klaesson, Johan; P Larsson, Johan - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2011

This paper reassesses the relationship between density and productivity by using detailed geo-coded data on wages and employment in Sweden. The contribution is empirical and builds on an analysis of spatial units of exactly the same size in terms of geographic surface. The data divide Sweden...

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