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A Bayesian Analysis of Total Factor Productivity Persistence

Mishra, Tapas; Diebolt, Claude; Parhi, Mamata; Mohanty, … - Association Française de Cliométrie - AFC - 2009

This paper studies persistence properties of total factor productivity (TFP) from Bayesian perspective. Emphasizing that classical unit root test for TFP cannot determine the probability whether a stochastic shock to the series is permanent, we design a Bayesian unit root test for TFP....

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Demographic change and industry-specific innovation patterns in Germany

Henseke, Golo; Tivig, Thusnelda - Institut für Volkswirtschaftlehre, Universität Rostock - 2007

sustain the innovation process that is at the basis of our prosperity. In this paper we deal with the age distributions of … among inventors. Additionally, we advance the new hypothesis that any age-bias in innovation activity should show up as …

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Tax Competition, Capital Mobility, and Innovation in the Public Sector

Rauscher, Michael - Institut für Volkswirtschaftlehre, Universität Rostock - 2005

The paper analyses the impact of tax competition on innovation in the public sector. It is shown that the effects of … increased mobility of the tax base on innovation and growth are ambiguous. The negative relationship is more likely, however …

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Caracterização das pequenas e médias empresas de base tecnológica em São Paulo: uma análise preliminar

Fernandes, Ana Cristina; Pinho, Marcelo; Côrtes, Mauro … - In: Revista Economia e Sociedade 22 (2004) 1, pp. 23-23

category of firms constitute an important though polemical and misapprehended aspect of the innovation process carried out … in the metropolitan area of São Paulo. These firms? innovation capacity is well above the state average reported by PAEP …

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Key Characteristics of the Small Innovative Firm

Andersson, Martin; Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009

innovation activities captured by patent applications, firm characteristics, international trade and the regional milieu. …

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DETERMINANTS OF FOOD INDUSTRY PERFORMANCE – SURVEY DATA AND REGRESSIONS FOR DENMARK

Furtan, William Hartley; Sauer, Johannes - Agricultural Economics Society - AES - 2008

This paper investigates empirically the determinants of firms’ performance in the agrifood sector by using recent survey data for Denmark. Treating sales per employee as a proxy for value added we estimate several bootstrapped regression models to draw conclusions on the marginal effects of...

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Fiddling while carbon burns: why climate policy needs emission pervasive pricing as well as technology promotion

Pezzey, John C.V.; Jotzo, Frank; Quiggin, John C. - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2007

Effective climate policy requires global emissions of greenhouse gases to be cut substantially, which in energy sectors can be achieved by lower emissions supply technologies, greater energy use efficiency, and substitution in demand. For policy to be efficient requires fairly uniform, pervasive...

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Knowledge Production in Nanomaterials : An Application of Spatial Filtering to Regional Systems of Innovation

Grimpe, Christoph; Patuelli, Roberto - USI Università della Svizzera italiana - 2008

Nanomaterials are seen as a key technology for the 21st Century, and much is expected of them in terms of innovation … products. In this context, it seems all the more important for regions to put their own innovation systems in place, and to … conditions and configurations allow a regional innovation system to be competitive in a cutting-edge technology like …

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Regional Economies, Innovation and Competitiveness in a System Dynamics Representation

Fratesi, Ugo - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali, Facoltà … - 2004

process of innovation, needed to be successful. The model also shows in a new framework how, due to the cumulative nature of … this innovation process, it is possible to obtain equilibria with regional income di®erentiation, even in the presence of …

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Albert O. Hirschman on Economic Evolution

Calafati, Antonio G. - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali, Facoltà … - 2000

In this paper it will be argued that Albert O. Hirschman’s research work is a remarkable instance of a methodological shift that began in the Fifties, and of which there seems to be scarce awareness nowadays notwithstanding its relevance for some of the issues that are in the agenda of...

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