Search Results - subject:"neutral technological change"

Development accounting, the elasticity of substitution, and non-neutral technological change

Mello, Marcelo de Albuquerque e; Rodrigues, André de Souza - In: Revista brasileira de economia : RBE ; publicação de … 71 (2017) 1, pp. 93-109

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Radar scanning the world production frontier

Krüger, Jens J. - 2015

In this paper we report the results from a detailed investigation of the shifts of the world production frontier function over the period 1980-2010. Analogous to a radar we implement a novel measurement approach for these shifts using nonparametrically computed productivity measures to scan the...

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Radar scanning the world production frontier

Krüger, Jens - 2015

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Growth, fluctuations and technology in the U.S. post-war economy

López, Jesús Rodríguez - Departamento de Economía, Universidad Pablo de Olavide - 2010

This paper explores several issues concerning how technology affects growth and fluctuations during several U.S. postwar series. The nature of technology is divided into neutral progress and investment-specific progress. Accounting for several changes in the first and second order moments of...

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ICT-specific technological change and productivity growth in the US 1980-2004

Martínez, Diego; Rodríguez, Jesús; Torres, José L. - Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica, Facultad … - 2008

, information and communication tech- nologies, speci�c-technological change, neutral-technological change. For very helpful … technological changes. Greenwood et al. (1997) for the period 1954-1990 obtained that neutral-technological change accounts for a 42 … only 7% of total productivity growth. These results imply that neutral technological change accounts for a 57% of total …

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Productivity growth and technological change in Europe and us

Martínez, Diego; Torres, y José L.; … - Centro de Estudios Andaluces, Government of Andalusia - 2008

This paper presents an evaluation on the technological sources of productivity growth across European countries and the U.S. for the period 1980-2004. Technological progress is divided into neutral change and investment specific change. Contribution to productivity growth from each type of...

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Productivity growth and technological change in Europe and the U.S.

Torres, Jose L.; Martínez, Diego; Rodríguez-López, Jesús - Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica, Facultad … - 2008

: Productivitygrowth, Investment-speci�ctechnologicalchange, Neutral technological change. 1 Introduction Technological improvements in … neutral technological change have been calculated following Green- wood, Hercowitz and Krusell (1997) approach. In order to … as the neutral technological change. The second panel reports the technological change implicit in the six capital assets …

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Technological sources of productivity growth in Japan, the Us and Germany: What makes the difference?

Rodríguez, Jesús; Torres, José L. - Centro de Estudios Andaluces, Government of Andalusia - 2008

. Neutral technological change is the main source of productivity growth in Japan and Germany. For the US, the main source of …

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ICT-specific technological change and productivity growth in the US 1980-2004

López, Diego Martínez; López, Jesús Rodríguez; … - Departamento de Economía, Universidad Pablo de Olavide - 2008

This paper studies the impact of the information and communication technologies (ICT) on U.S. economic growth using a dynamic general equilibrium approach. We use a production function with six different capital inputs, three of them corresponding to ICT assets and other three to non-ICT assets....

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