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Nested Stochastic Possibility Frontiers with Heterogeneous Capital Inputs

Erber, Georg; Madlener, Reinhard - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

This paper studies the productivity impact of heterogeneous capital inputs of selected EU-15 member countries and of the U.S. at the macroeconomic level. The stochastic possibility frontiers approach of Battese and Coelli (1992) applied here is used to identify neutralities or non-neutralities...

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Does the Dispersion of Unit Labor Cost Dynamics in the EMU Imply Long-Run Divergence?: Results from a Comparison with the United States of America and Germany

Dullien, Sebastian; Fritsche, Ulrich - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

inflation convergence using different approaches, namely panel unit root tests, co-integration tests and error-correction models …. All in all we cannot reject convergence of ULC growth in EMU, however, country-specific deviations from the rest of the …

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Convergence in Institutions and Market Outcomes: Cross-Country and Time-Series Evidence from the BEEPS Surveys in Transition Economies

Mitra, Pradeep; Muravyev, Alexander; Schaffer, Mark E. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

This paper uses the BEEPS firm-level data to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed … convergence of transition countries with developed market economies in a number of dimensions. The pattern of growth at the … activity taking place in 2002, the middle of the period analyzed. Throughout, the regional patterns suggest greater convergence …

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Unit Labor Cost Growth Differentials in the Euro Area, Germany, and the US: Lessons from PANIC and Cluster Analysis

Fritsche, Ulrich; Kuzin, Vladimir - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

area, and narrower differences in labour productivity growth (Alvarez et al., 2006). We investigate convergence of … are much less important in explaining the variance of ULC growth. We report evidence for convergence clusters in all …

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