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Dynamic Models of R&D, Innovation and Productivity: Panel Data Evidence for Dutch and French Manufacturing

Raymond, Wladimir; Mairesse, Jacques; Mohnen, Pierre; … - CESifo - 2013

This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly … individual effects and idiosyncratic errors correlated across equations and that differ in the way innovation enters the … Community Innovation Survey. The results provide evidence of robust unidirectional causality from innovation to productivity and …

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Intra- and Inter-Industry Productivity Spillovers in OECD Manufacturing: A Spatial Econometric Perspective

Badinger, Harald; Egger, Peter - CESifo - 2008

We adopt a spatial econometric approach to estimate intra- and inter-industry productivity spillovers in total factor productivity transmitted through input-output relations in a sample of 13 OECD countries and 15 manufacturing industries. Both R&D spillovers as well as remainder,...

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Top of the Class: The Importance of Ordinal Rank

Murphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix - CESifo - 2014

This paper examines the long-run impact of ordinal rank during primary school on productivity using comprehensive English administrative data. Identification is obtained from variation in test score distributions across cohorts and subjects, such that the same score relative to the class mean...

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The Econometrics Approach to the Measurement of Efficiency: A Survey

Rossi, Martín - Departamento de Economía, Universidad de San Andrés - 2015

I present a survey on the econometric approach to the measurement of efficiency, focusing on the models used in empirical applications. I describe both models for cross sectional data and models for panel data. Finally, I survey the recent literature on models with time varying technical efficiency.

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Using Labor Productivity Change Estimates as an Input for X-Factors in Price-Cap Regulation

Rossi, Martín - Departamento de Economía, Universidad de San Andrés - 2015

In this paper I provide an estimate of labor productivity growth for the electricity distribution sector in Latin America, in the period 1994 to 2001. I report an annual rate of labor productivity change of about 6%. A comparison of the changes in prices and labor productivity reveals that, in...

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Foreign Direct Investment Spillovers and the Absorption Capabilities of Domestic Firms in the Argentine Manufacturing Sector (1992-2001)

Chudnovsky, Daniel; Lopez, Andres; Rossi, Gaston - Departamento de Economía, Universidad de San Andrés - 2004

Argentina received large amounts of FDI inflows during the 90s. At the same time, deep structural reforms were introduced, forcing domestic firms to rapidly undertake restructuring processes in order to adapt to the new economic and institutional environment. This paper explores to what extent...

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