Search Results - subject:"Economic development and growth"

A new typology for economic sectors with a view to policy implications

Pol, E; Carroll, PGH; Robertson, PL - 2002

This paper is an attempt to tease out a typology of economic sectors based on a systems approach to innovation and economic growth that may be useful for policy analysis. The typology explored here revolves around novel products rather than ethereal knowledge-producing entities. This insight...

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Innovation

Smith, KH - 2002

Innovation is novelty - it involves doing new things in new ways. So new products, new processes, new organizational methods, new services, and so on, are all part of innovation. Technological innovation transforms and improves the technical attributes and performance characteristics of products...

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Assessing Financial Integration in the European Union Equity Markets: Panel Unit Root and Multivariate Cointegration and Causality Evidence

C. Worthington, Andrew; Higgs, Helen - In: Journal of Economic Integration 25 (2010), pp. 457-479

This paper measures financial integration among selected European Union equity markets over the period July 1990 to June 2006 using daily data. Eleven markets (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom) are included in the...

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Decentralization, Economic Development, and Growth in Turkish Provinces

Tosun, Mehmet Serkan; Yilmaz, Serdar - In: Emerging Markets Finance and Trade 46 (2010) 4, pp. 71-91

1980s. This paper examines economic development and growth in Turkish provinces. It first discusses local government … development and growth in those provinces. The findings suggest a weak negative economic effect of decentralization through a … whether variations in local decentralization across these provinces and across time have significantly affected economic …

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Innovation and economic performance at the enterprise level

Sandven, T; Smith, KH - 2001

It is frequently claimed that innovation is essential to economic performance, but such claims are usually quite general and abstract. Often they apply indistinguishably to economic growth generally, to the competitiveness of national economies, to the profitability, survival and growth of...

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An Assessment of Output Performance in Northern Cyprus

Hakan, Mihci; Devrim, Karaman - In: South East European Journal of Economics and Business 4 (2009) 1, pp. 21-35

This paper mainly attempts to investigate empirically the Northern Cyprus output performance by using a panel data method for the period 1977-2005. A supplementary aim is to assess the impact of export orientation on the Northern Cyprus output level. Empirical results suggest that investment,...

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An Assessment of Output Performance in Northern Cyprus

Hakan, Mihci; Devrim, Karaman - In: South East European Journal of Economics and Business 4 (2009) 1, pp. 21-35

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Industrial Transformation in Austria, Norway and Sweden

Parker, Rachel L. - 2000

The literature on state capacity has suggested that state-industry relations are critical in understanding the structure of industry and the capacity for industry transformation within a particular social context. Further, there appears to be a need for science and technology policies that...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437598

Institutions, information processing, and organization structure in research and development: evidence from the semiconductor industry

West, J - 2000

This paper examines some determinants of the choice between focused and distributed modes of organization in research and development (R&D). It argues that as organizations face mounting information-processing challenges, posed by complexity and uncertainty and inherent in innovation, they...

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Aid illusion and public sector fiscal behaviour

McGillivray, Mark; Morrissey, Oliver - 2000

Two findings have been common in the literature on the impact of foreign aid on public sector fiscal behaviour in developing countries. The first is that aid ‘sticks’ to higher levels of recipient government expenditure, with aggregate expenditure often rising by more than the value of the...

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