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Pies, Ingo - 2021

Dieser Artikel dokumentiert ein Kurzinterview und einen Nachtrag. Das Interview beantwortet Fragen zur Corona-Pandemie, die mir vom Deutschen Netzwerk Wirtschaftsethik (DNWE) vorgelegt wurden. Der Nachtrag reflektiert auf ordonomische Publikationen, die während dieser Krisenzeit entstanden sind.

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Business Constraints and Growth Potential of Micro and Small Manufacturing Enterprises in Uganda

Ishengoma, Esther K.; Kappel, Robert - 2008

Ugandan micro- and small enterprises (MSEs) still perform poorly. The paper utilizes data collected in Uganda in March and April 2003 to analyze the business constraints faced by these MSEs. Using a stratified random sampling, a sample of 265 MSEs were interviewed. The study focuses on the 105...

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Emerging patterns of manufacturing structural change

Haraguchi, Nobuya; Rezonja, Gorazd - 2011

In the past, research on changes in relative importance among broad three sectors - ;agriculture, industry, and service - showed general patterns of a country's structural transformation along with economic development. However, there has been devoid of empirical studies investigating in the...

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Asia's labour-driven economic development, flying-geese style: An unprecedented opportunity for the poor to rise?

Ozawa, Terutomo - 2006

The notion of ‘shared growth’ was introduced by the World Bank in recognition of East Asia’s rapid growth accompanied by poverty reduction. It emphasizes the criticality of pro-poor policies and institutional setups in the fast-developing East Asian economies. The efforts of these...

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Calm after the Storm?: Supply-side contributions to New Zealand's GDP volatility decline

Buckle, Robert A; Haugh, David; Thomson, Peter - 2001

The variance of New Zealand's real GDP has declined since the mid-1980s. To investigate why, this paper decomposes the variance of chain-weighted estimates of production-based real GDP growth into sector shares, sector growth rate variances and co-variances. The principal explanation for the...

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Patent buyout in a model of endogenous growth

Radhakrishnan, Ravi - 2016

This paper considers the prospect of a government patent buyout in a model of endogenous growth. To this end, the author modifies a standard quality ladder growth model by incorporating possibility of imitation, and rent protection activities (RPAs) by the innovator. The government finances the...

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Innovation vs. imitation and the evolution of productivity distributions

Zilibotti, Fabrizio; König, Michael; Lorenz, Jan - In: Theoretical Economics 11 (2016) 3, pp. 1053-1102

We develop a tractable dynamic model of productivity growth and technology spillovers that is consistent with the emergence of real world empirical productivity distributions. Firms can improve productivity by engaging in in-house R\&D, or alternatively, by trying to imitate other firms'...

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Industries without smokestacks: Telecommunication and ICT-based services trade

Frischtak, Cláudio R. - 2017

This paper provides a basic understanding of the nature of emerging key information and communication technologies, and establishes the distance of countries from high-quality access to the internet - the necessary threshold one needs to cross in order to make use of such technologies. The paper...

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Religion and Innovation

Benabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - 2015

individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five … waves of the World Values Survey (1980 to 2005). We thus relate eleven indicators of individual openness to innovation … innovation. …

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Science, Innovation and National Growth

Brenner, Thomas - 2014

This paper studies the effects of public research (publications) and innovation output (patents) on national economic … as well as less and more developed countries are studied separately. The results confirm the effect of innovation output … on productivity for more developed countries. Simultaneously, innovation output is found to have negative impacts on …

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