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Colignatus, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The welfare state was created after 1950 with counterproductive mechanisms and this caused high inflation and high unemployment and stagnating growth by 1970, called stagflation. Since 1970 governments redressed the welfare state but did not succeed in finding workable mechanisms. They rather...

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Economics as victim between lawyers and mathematics: An explanation for the tax credit, Bulgarian potential fraud, European unemployment and the economic crisis

Colignatus, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

(1) The basic problem in OECD countries is the tax void. (2) A tax system with an exemption is more transparant than a system with a tax credit. (3) Exemption should be at the level of the net minimum wage so that such workers can work at net = gross. (4) A tax credit is a sufficient but not a...

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The efficiency in Thai financial sector after the financial crisis

Chansarn, Supachet - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

This study aims to investigate the efficiency in Thai financial sector after the financial crisis (1998 – 2004) by looking at the total factor productivity (TFP) growth. Furthermore, the study also investigate the efficiency in commercial bank sector, finance and securities company sector and...

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Oil prices and the developing countries- the evidence of the last decade

Chichilnisky, Graciela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1985

Many of the present difficulties of the world economy have been blamed on the two oil-price explosions of the 1970s. Professor Chichilnisky shows that, at least in the case of the oil-importing developing countries, the negative effects have been overestimated. In fact, in some respects the oil...

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Investments in Modernization, Innovation and Gains in Productivity: Evidence from Firms in the Global Paper Industry

Ghosal, Vivek; Nair-Reichert, Usha - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This paper examines the impact of investments in modernization and innovation on productivity in a sample of firms in … achieved higher productivity, and these estimated quantitative effects are greater than the impact of standard innovation … innovation and, more generally, how firms go about achieving gains in productivity. While this paper focuses on the pulp and …

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Crescimento da produtividade e organização do trabalho: discussão de alguns factores

Moniz, António - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002

organization, technology, infrastructures, product design). On the other hand, the capacity of innovation can be perceived by the … great number of which is market by a weak potential of adaptability, innovation and sustainability. It becomes urgent to …

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Innovation, Diffusion, and Trade: Theory and Measurement

Santacreu, Ana Maria - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

international diffusion through trade. Fitting the model to data on innovation, productivity, and trade in varieties, I find that …

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Financial constraints and innovation: Why poor countries don't catchup

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Schnitzer, Monika - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm's innovation … export and innovation activities to become substitutes although they are generally natural complements. …

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Technological regimes and sectoral differences in productivity growth

Castellacci, Fulvio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

The paper explores a novel extension of the R&D-productivity literature. It puts forward an empirical model where sectoral productivity growth is related to the characteristics of technological regimes and a set of other industry-specific economic features. The model is estimated on a...

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How does competition affect the relationship between innovation and productivity? Estimation of a CDM model for Norway

Castellacci, Fulvio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The paper investigates the effects of industry-level competition on firm-level innovation and productivity. We propose … innovation process: the choice of a firm to engage in innovation, its R&D intensity, its innovation output and labour … productivity. We test the model on a firm-level panel dataset based on the last three waves of the innovation survey for Norway …

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