Showing papers in "Structural Change and Economic Dynamics in 2013"

TL;DR: The authors analyzed the performance of a panel of Spanish manufacturing firms between 1998 and 2006, relating it to firm age and found evidence that firms improve with age, because ageing firms are observed to have steadily increasing levels of productivity, higher profits, larger size, lower debt ratios and higher equity ratios Furthermore, older firms are better able to convert sales growth into subsequent growth of profits and productivity.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine four different theoretical perspectives used in studies of service innovation: assimilation, demarcation, inversion and integration/synthesis, and conclude that these features do not constitute a strong case for studying public service innovation as if it were something sui generis, let alone continuing to neglect it.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss how public sector innovation can be captured and to what extent measurement can be based on frameworks originally developed in a private sector context, while there are important differences between the public and the private sector that should be reflected in a measurement framework, there is also considerable common ground that can be drawn upon.

TL;DR: This article showed that energy is a much more important factor of production than its small cost share may indicate, and that continued economic growth along the historical trend cannot safely be assumed, notably in view of considerably higher energy prices in the future due to peak oil and climate policy.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined how institutional indicators influence economic growth in a theoretical framework proposed by North (1981) and found that favorable institutions positively affect economic growth, and that for a developing country the institutional and policy rent is more important than other two indices that curb political rents and those that reduce transaction risks.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the impact of innovation strategies on employment growth in four Latin American countries (Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, and Uruguay) using micro-data for manufacturing firms from innovation surveys.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the empirical relationship between the level of urbanization and the size of the informal economy using cross-country datasets proxying GDP and employment shares of urban informal sector.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined whether firms that innovate experience higher rates of growth than firms that do not, based on different models and econometric methodologies applied to several waves of Community Innovation Surveys (CIS) for French industry during 1992-2004.

TL;DR: This article conducted interviews with 37 branch level managers in the Australian Federal Government to determine how managers understood the concept of innovation and their familiarity with different types of innovations and found that 91% of branches introduced an innovation in the previous two years.

TL;DR: In this paper, the relationship between knowledge intensive business services (KIBS) and the economic growth is investigated and the main result is that KIBS can be regarded as an engine for the economic development and that they operate as a substitute for the material capital accumulation.

TL;DR: The authors investigated business services firms that start to export, comparing exporters to firms that serve the national market only and found that exporters are on average more productive and pay higher wages in all three countries.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the patterns and mechanisms of job creation in business services by considering the role of innovation, demand, wages and the composition of employment by professional groups, and developed a model and an empirical test with parallel analyses on a group of selected business services, on other services and on manufacturing sectors, considering six major European countries over the period 1996-2007.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess the economic impact of business services (BS) on client industries by integrating different industry level data sources (OECD Input-Output Tables, OECD Structural Analysis Database and EUROSTAT CIS) for a selected number of European countries.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a comprehensive set of stylized facts for business cycles in India from 1950 to 2010, and report evidence that these changes are driven primarily by structural changes caused by market oriented reforms, and not by good luck.

TL;DR: This paper developed a disaggregated model of the balance-of-payments constraint with two types of exports, primary commodities and intermediate and final goods, and showed that the BP-equilibrium growth rate did not fall, but instead rose in the post-liberalization period, so this model cannot explain the country's growth slowdown.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify the technological, organizational, and contextual factors associated with the development of eGovernment services in local administrations, and find that both outsourcing and internal accumulation of ICT competencies are strongly correlated to the provision of these services.

TL;DR: In this article, an index-based approach is proposed to measure public sector performance relying on the adoption of public e-services as a proxy of revealed output quality, and an econometric analysis of how the coevolution of ICT, skills and organizational factors affects government effectiveness.

TL;DR: In this article, the inquiry dimensions of Verdoorn's Law are selectively embedded in Pasinetti's multi-sector model, thus allowing us to better consider cumulative causation through rendering structural changes endogenous.

TL;DR: In the context of the 1st International EIBURS-TAIPS Conference on Structural Change and Economic Dynamics as mentioned in this paper, the authors of this special issue contribute to fill the gap that can be observed in the literature as regards innovation in public services, at the theoretical, empirical and methodological level.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the features associated with the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in service definition and delivery, and model user choices in terms of the time-allocation between self-production, co-production and purchase as influenced by competences and time-saving preferences.

TL;DR: In this article, a two-sector model with induced innovation is presented to rationalize these phenomena as well as several other empirical regularities of actual economies, such as the relative stability of aggregate labor share constitutes one of the great macroeconomic ratios.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors try to give a fully endogenous explanation of the factors triggering the technological revolutions by presenting a behavioural model in which innovation, entrepreneurship and radical uncertainty play a crucial role in determining the dynamics of the system.

TL;DR: In this article, the roles of potential simultaneity and heterogeneity in determining firms' decisions to engage in R&D collaboration, using a sample of Italian manufacturing firms, were explored by applying a multivariate probit specification.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors deal with backward and forward linkages stemming from foreign multinational enterprises (MNEs) in service sectors, and their impact on the productivity of local manufacturing firms.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use a Benhabib-Spiegel type growth model embedded in a threshold regression framework to test for non-linearities in the impact of the technology gap on economic growth as suggested by the technology club hypothesis.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that the typical calculation of offshoring indices tends to over estimate the role of the imported inputs component, neglecting the role played by structural changes in the economy.

TL;DR: The authors analyzed the link between firm survival and financial healthiness during the 1997-1998 Asian crisis and found that the sensitivity of survival to financial indicators is significantly higher during the crisis compared to tranquil periods.

TL;DR: This paper finds that a large share of firms, almost 20%, are not classified as expected based on a comparison of their statements of activities with the assigned industry codes, and provides a quantification of the flaws in classifications of firms.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a formal model of an innovation arising from the combination of two existing modules, with the objective to optimize the net benefits of diversity, and derived conditions for optimal diversity under different regimes of returns to scale.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a model addressing the conditions under which financial instability arises in the event of household debt and discuss the ability of capital adequacy ratio to limit financial instability.