Search Results - subject:"technical change."

A Multiple Output Stochastic Ray Frontier Production Model

Löthgren, Mickael - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 1997

"internal market" reform while the effect on the production frontier is negative. Technical change is found to be positive while …

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Technical Change and Efficiency in Turkish Manufacturing Industries

Taymaz, Erol; Saatci, Gülin - In: Journal of Productivity Analysis 8 (1997) 4, pp. 461-475

the years 1987 to 1992. The rate and direction of technical change for each industry are estimated by introducing time …

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Technological substitution in mobile communications

Johnson, William C.; Bhatia, Keith - In: Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing 12 (1997) 6, pp. 383-399

Asserts that innovation, which plays a key role in product and process improvement in many companies, is the very lifeblood of high technology firms. Considers that because technological change is a function of the economic growth model then technological substitution must be a sub‐function of...

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Regulatory ‘balancing’ and the efficiency of green R&D

Heyes, Anthony; Liston-Heyes, Catherine - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 9 (1997) 4, pp. 493-507

We identify and analyse several dynamic implications of setting environmental standards such as to ‘balance’ marginal costs and benefits. The adoption of such a regulatory approach is shown to effect (i) the speed of improvement of abatement technologies; (ii) the ‘direction’ (in a sense...

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A terceira edição de "The economics of industrial innovation"

Albuquerque, Eduardo da Motta e - In: Nova Economia 7 (1997) 2, pp. 215-219

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New Technologies, Wages and Worker Selection

Entorf, Horst; Gollac, Michel; Kramarz, Francis - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

We study the impact of new technologies (NT) on wages and employment using a unique panel that matches data on individuals and on their firms. As found in the United States (Krueger (1993)), we show that computer users are better paid than non-users (between 15% and 20% more). But we also show...

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Human Capital and Macroeconomic Growth: Austria and Germany 1960-1992

Koman, Reinhard; Marin, Dalia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

In an influential paper Mankiw, Romer and Weil (1992) argue that evidence on the international disparity in levels of per-capita income and rates of growth is consistent with a standard Solow model, once it has been augmented to include human capital as an accumulable factor. In a study on...

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From Socialist Showcase to Mezzogiorno? Lessons on the Role of Technical Change from East Germany's Post-World War II Growth Performance

Keller, Wolfgang - EconWPA - 1997

In this paper we emphasize the contribution of technical change, broadly defined, towards productivity growth in … prospects of catching up with West Germany during the post-reunification era. We show, first, that the rates of technical change … reunification. Second, we demonstrate that the rates of technical change in the East German states have been considerably higher …

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The Pharmaceutical Industry

Vernon, J.M.; Grabowski, H. - 1982

FISHER and TEMIN (1973) have arguedrecently that many empirical studies1 relatingto the Schumpeterian hypothesis are inappropriatefor testing that hypothesis. Theyobserve that Schumpeter can be interpreted ashypothesizing that the elasticity of the value ofresearch and development (R and D)...

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Science and economic development

Rosenberg, Nathan - In: Nova Economia 6 (1996) 2, pp. 9-22

The role of science or technology in economic development is discussed inthe context of the world economy. Two myths that have dominated thinking about technology in Latin America are examined. The role of the firm in the formulation of strategies for technological change and the requisite of...

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