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Stochastic Technical Change and Procyclical TFP The Case of Italian Agriculture

Esposti, Roberto - In: Journal of Productivity Analysis 14 (2000) 2, pp. 119-141

The paper questionsthe use of Total Factor Productivity (TFP) measures as a proxyfor the technological level in Italian agriculture. TFP growthreveals a cyclical behaviour and a short-run component due toshocks on both the demand and supply sides. In order to identifyreal long-run technological...

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Technological regimes and sources of entrepreneurship

Marsili, O. - Eindhoven Centre for Innovation Studies (Ecis), … - 2000

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Productivity Growth, Efficiency and Outsourcing in Manufacturing and Service Industries

Heshmati, Almas - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2000

This paper is a survey of recent contributions to, and developments of, the relationship between outsourcing, efficiency and productivity growth in manufacturing and services. The objective is to provide a thorough and up-to-date survey that provides a significant discussion on data, as well as...

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Evolutionary Theories in Environmental and Resource Economics: Approaches and Applications

Bergh, Jeroen van den; Gowdy, John - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 17 (2000) 1, pp. 37-57

Recent advances in evolutionary theory have important implications for environmental economics. A short overview is offered of evolutionarythinking in economics. Subsequently, major concepts and approaches inevolutionary biology and evolutionary economics are presented andcompared. Attention is...

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Skill-Biased Technical Change Theoretical Concepts, Empirical Problems and a Survey of the Evidence

Sanders, Mark; Weel, Bas ter - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2000

. Many authors have attributed this shift to the impact of new technologies, and or technical change in general. This paper … investigates and structures the growing body of literature on skill-biased technical change (SBTC) by first presenting a model in … which SBTC is formalised and decomposed into factor and sector biases of technical change. We show that as we go down to the …

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Measuring and Decomposing Productivity Change: Stochastic Distance Function Estimation VS. DEA.

Lastrapes, W.D. - Terry College of Business, University of Georgia - 2000

Linear programming techniques have been widely used to compute Malmquist indices of productivity change as ratios of fitted distances from a convex hull frontier. These indices are then decomposed into technical and efficiency change. However, since this approach is non-stochastic, inference is...

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Flexible panel data models for risky production technologies with an application to salmon aquaculture

Tveterås, Ragner; Wan, G. H. - In: Econometric Reviews 19 (2000) 3, pp. 367-389

technologies. Hence, one should estimate technical change separately for the deterministic part and the risk part of thetechnology. …

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Emission Trading Restrictions with Endogenous Technological Change

Buonanno, Paolo; Carraro, Carlo; Castelnuovo, Efrem; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

In this paper we use a simple climate model with endogenous environmental technical change in order to analyse the … is obtained by incorporating in Nordhaus and Yang (1996)’s RICE model and the notion of induced technical change as … environmental technical change that could be enhanced by the presence of ceilings on trading. However, this effect is shown to be …

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The Trade and Labour Approaches to Wage Inequality

Haskel, Jonathan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

the different roles ascribed to sector and factor bias, labour supply and the theory of technical change in trade models …

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Energy Tax and Competition in Energy Efficiency: The Case of Consumer Durables

Conrad, K. - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 15 (2000) 2, pp. 159-177

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the role of anenergy tax on technical improvements and on prices ofconsumer durables induced by strategic competition inenergy efficiency. If the gasoline tax is raised thisdoes in principle not affect the producers of carsbecause the motorist pays for it...

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