Search Results - subject:"TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION"

Factor Price Risk and the Diffusion of Conservation Technology: Evidence from the Water Industry

Moreno, Georgina; Sunding, David - Economics Department, Claremont McKenna College - 2001

The paper examines the influence of factor price risk on factor-use efficiency through the adoption of conservation technology. The effect of a mean-preserving increase in factor price risk on optimal input-use efficiency is shown to be conditional on the own-price elasticity of factor use...

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Taxes, Inequality and the Size of the Informal Sector

Dessy, Sylvain; Pallage, Stéphane - Département d'Économique, Université Laval - 2001

: informal sector, technology adoption, infrastructure, inequality, taxation, development JEL classification: O14, O17, H54 1 …-1026. [11] Parente, S.L. and Prescott, E.C. (1994), “Barriers to Technology Adoption and Development,” Journal of Political Econ …

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Why Don't Poor Countries Adopt Better Technologies?

Dessy, Sylvain; Pallage, Stephane - Département des Sciences Économiques, École des … - 2001

In this paper we develop a simple heterogeneous-agent model with incomplete markets to explain the prevalence of a large low-productivity, informal sector in developing countries. In our model, the provision of public infrastructure creates a productivity premium for formalization, which...

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Cross-country Diffusion of the Internet

Kiiski, Sampsa; Pohjola, Matti - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2001

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Why Don't Lenders Finance High-Return Technological Change in Developing-Country Agriculture?

Blackman, Allen - 2001

Most of the literature attributes credit constraints in small-farm developing-country agriculture to the variability of returns to investment in this sector. But the literature does not fully explain lenders’ reluctance to finance investments in technologies that provide both higher average...

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Machine Replacement, Technology Adoption and Convergence

Boucekkine, Raouf; Martínez, Blanca - 2001

In this paper, we introduce adoption costs in a canonical vintage capital model. Adoption costs take the form of a direct loss in production during a fixed period of time. We explicitly characterize the optimal machine replacement policy as a function of the adoption period. Using an explicit...

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Factor price risk and the diffusion of conservation technology : evidence from the water industry

Moreno, Georgina; Sunding, David L. - 2001

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The Determinants Of The Adoption Of Advanced Manufacturing Technology

Arvanitis, Spyros; Hollenstein, Heinz - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 10 (2001) 5, pp. 377-414

a comprehensive specification of a 'rank model' of technology adoption using firm-level data for Swiss manufacturing …. The explanatory variables include numerous dimensions of (anticipated) benefits from and costs of technology adoption …

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Adoption of network technologies in the presence of converters

Seifert, Ralf; Vare, Arnaud - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 18 (2009) 1, pp. 69-91

In many high-tech industries, the emergence of new digital technologies allows companies to develop converters to overcome technology incompatibility. In this paper, we analyze the effects of converter introduction on the adoption process of competing, incompatible technologies in the presence...

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The Economics of Genetically Modified Crops

Qaim, Matin - In: Annual Review of Resource Economics 1 (2009) 1, pp. 665-694

Genetically modified (GM) crops have been used commercially for more than 10 years. Available impact studies of insect-resistant and herbicide-tolerant crops show that these technologies are beneficial to farmers and consumers, producing large aggregate welfare gains as well as positive effects...

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