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Trade and product market policies in upstream sectors and productivity in downstream sectors : firm-level evidence from China

Bas, Maria; Causa, Orsetta - 2012

This paper explores the productivity impact of trade, product market and financial market policies over the last decade in China – a fast growing country where, despite significant reform action, regulatory stance remains still far from OECD standards. The paper makes a critical distinction...

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Import competition, domestic regulation and firm-level productivity growth in the OECD

Yahmed, Sarra Ben; Dougherty, Sean M. - 2012

This paper examines how import penetration affects firms' productivity growth taking into account the heterogeneity in firms' distance to the efficiency frontier and country differences in product market regulation. Using firm-level data for a large number of OECD countries, the analysis reveals...

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Rebalancing Turkey's growth by improving resource allocation and productivity in manufacturing

Atabek, Aslihan; Andrews, Dan; Gönenç, Rauf - 2017

innovation incentives. All firms could then achieve stronger productivity gains and the most promising firms could grow faster …

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Malaysia's economic success story and challenges

Koen, Vincent; Asada, Hidekatsu; Nixon, Stewart; … - 2017

Malaysia has sustained over four decades of rapid, inclusive growth, reducing its dependence on agriculture and commodity exports to become a more diversified, modern and open economy. GDP per capita is now higher than in a number of OECD economies, while poverty and income inequality have...

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Boosting productivity in Malaysia

Koen, Vincent; Asada, Hidekatsu; Nixon, Stewart - 2017

productivity include increasing the quality of education and skills training, spurring innovation, adopting information technology …

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Decentralisation to promote Regional Development in Indonesia

Vujanovic, Petar Declan - 2017

In 1998 Indonesia embarked on an ambitious course of decentralisation. Over a period of a few years, facilitated by financial transfers from the central government, responsibility for many public services and administrative tasks were devolved to local authorities. This process is continuing....

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Austria's digital transition : the diffusion challenge

Gönenç, Rauf; Guérard, Béatrice - 2017

Austria’s transition to a digital economy and society is slower than in other high-income small open European economies. The rate and pace of utilisation of eight main ICT applications shows that Austrian firms follow peer country counterparts with a gap, which has widened in most areas in...

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Digital technology diffusion : a matter of capabilities, incentives or both?

Andrews, Dan; Nicoletti, Giuseppe; Timiliotis, Christina - 2018

Insufficient diffusion of new technologies has been quoted as one possible reason for weak productivity performance over the past two decades (Andrews et al., 2016). This paper uses a novel data set of digital technology usage covering 25 industries in 25 European countries over the 2010-16...

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Strengthening innovation in Poland

Brandt, Nicola - 2018

towards more productive sectors and foreign technology absorption. The economy’s own innovation capacity is relatively weak …, with low investment in research and development, no tradition of commercialising research and very limited innovation …-industry cooperation and international collaboration, which are all weak. Considerable EU funding is available to support innovation. Most …

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Luxembourg : diversifying a small open economy

Strasky, Jan; Wurzel, Eckhard - 2015

activity in high value added sectors. Stepping up investment in knowledge based capital and enterprise innovation can help … for women, can be reduced. Productivity and innovation are also affected by the effectiveness of the secondary education …

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