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The labour productivity differentials between manufacturing firms in Ghana and South Korea exceed those implied by … and South Korea. There is no significant difference in total factor productivity across the countries once we allow for … the shape of the relationship between productivity and human capital across countries is crucial for understanding the …
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The topics of interest of the economists have been common since the emergence of the economic discipline like science in the beginnings of the Modernity; the theoretical contributions of William Petty are an example of this. The articles wants to trace the origin of the Petty Clark law from...
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Abstract In this article we discuss the salient features of the classical and neoclassical theories of competition and we test their fundamental propositions using data from Greek manufacturing industries. The cross section data of 3-digit (total 91) industries of the three (pooled together)...
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The present document resumes the work of tree papers regarding college selection system. These investigations evaluate the use of the “high school ranking” of students as a college selection variable. The authors evaluate the performance of students in the University of Chile, Catholic...
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This paper looks at the relationship between patents and economic growth in Japan and South Korea using both individual country and panel data. For the econometric estimation, we use annual data for 1963-2005. For Japan, we find that the logarithms of real GDP and the number of patents are...
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This article is focused on the economic impact assessment of Internet of Things (IoT) and its associated cyber risks vectors and vertices – a reinterpretation of IoT verticals. We adapt to IoT both the Cyber Value at Risk model, a well-established model for measuring the maximum possible loss...
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of firms’ classification according to pattern and intensity of innovation and the use of technology. This topic is of …' innovation competencies, the technology used, and the human skills. Firms in the sample are classified into 4 groups, named …
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The impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) on firm performance has become the subject of active research in the last four decades. This study’s goal is to review the effect of ICT on the financial performance of firms in the consumer goods sector as measured by their Return...
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In this short essay the contributions discussed at the Conference “From the crisis to the growth. Policies to sustain the SM firms”, taken place in June 2009 at the University of Padova, have been collected. In the contributions presented, moving from different points of view, the authors...
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Global innovation networks are emerging as a result of the international division of innovation processes through …
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