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Competition and Technical Change
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Technical Change and Trade in the Rubber Market
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Modeling and measuring technical change and productivity growth
… dissertation, the microtheoretic measurement of technical change (TC) is developed as an alternative to the index number approach to total factor productivity (TFP) growth, incorporating recent theoretical developments in dynamic cost functions that shed light on the effects and role of …
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The Australian plastics industry : an economic analysis of technical change
… Particular attention is paid to the role of technical change in the industry's growth. An index of technology is derived from patents data and used in the model to measure explicitly the effect of technical change on both the demand for plastics goods and the demand for factor inputs. This …
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The Australian plastics industry : an economic analysis of technical change
… Particular attention is paid to the role of technical change in the industry's growth. An index of technology is derived from patents data and used in the model to measure explicitly the effect of technical change on both the demand for plastics goods and the demand for factor inputs. This …
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Regulation and Technical Change in the Electric Utility Industry: 1948-1975
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Higher level manpower development in Indonesia: Rates of return and embodied technical change
… in Indonesia, Korea, and Taiwan; embodied technical change; consistency among the four different techniques used to estimate rates of return; diffusion of technology; and policy implications. Further, the estimates of capital stock (both human and non-human) in Indonesia are carried out in …
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Induced technical change in computable general equilibrium models for climate-change policy analysis
Policies to avert the threat of dangerous climate change focus on stabilizing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations by drastically reducing anthropogenic emissions of carbon. Such reductions require limiting the use of fossil fuels-which supply the bulk of energy to economic activity, and for …
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Hardware engineering change management : an enterprise analysis of factors contributing to technical change
Engineering change management (ECM) is an essential but challenging cross-functional discipline within modern product development firms. ECM is best explained as a discipline because no single process can characterize the complex interactions between stakeholders, processes, information systems, …
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TECHNICAL CHANGE AND PROFITABILITY: THE LONG-PERIOD BEHAVIOR OF THE RATE OF PROFIT (COMPETITION, RATIONALITY)
… a theoretical inquiry into the effects of technical change on profitability. In the center of the discussion lies the Marxian 'Law of the Falling Tendency of the Rate of Profit' (LFTRP). The LFTRP maintains that mechanization, i.e. the introduction of cost-reducing techniques of the …
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Technical Change, Market Structure and Intraindustry Trade Specialization: A Study of the Colombian Manufacturing Industry
… the structural trends and determinants of technical change for the Colombian manufacturing industry. It also analyzes the role of technical change in the trends of international specialization in manufactures. To this end, the dissertation has five related chapters. Chapter one analyzes the …
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Did State Renewable Portfolio Standards Induce Technical Change In Methane Mitigation in the U.S. Landfill Sector?
… conflicting policy incentives. The theory of technical change shows that the diffusion of a technology or groups of technologies increases slowly in the beginning and then picks up speed as knowledge and better understanding of using the technology diffuses among potential users. Using …
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Biased Technical Change, Institutional Shift, and the Functional Distribution of Income: Who Benefits from Economic Growth?
… These include technologically-driven structural changes that have altered the employment and wage structure of advanced economies: deindustrialization and labor market polarization. By focusing on the case of the US, this thesis provides an empirical and theoretical review of the dynamics behind …
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Estimating the rate of technical change in the oil and gas industry using data from private and national companies
… properly a factor for supply growth due to technical change - a component that has played a significant role in the provision of access to newer streams of crude oil and natural gas - because the measurement of productivity and technical change at the oil and gas industry aggregate level are …
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Knowledge-based trade, technical change and location environment: the case of small and medium sized enterprises engaged in advanced producer software services in the South East region
Technical change is the driving force behind modern economic competitiveness and the evolution of enterprise and industry. The process, however, is not insular; in particular the location environment is regarded as a key component of how technical change is derived, implemented and diffused. This …
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The influence of communications infrastructure on agricultural growth
… of the agricultural sector and the direction of technical change. The purpose of this thesis is to empirically examine the effects of the level of communications infrastructure on agricultural production and the direction of technical change. A Cobb-Douglas production function was used to …
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Una medición de productividad y cambio tecnológico en agroquímicos: el caso del arroz Colombiano después de la revolución verde
… For this case, rice sector productivity and technical changes are to be analyzed to derive conclusions about factor substitution, productivity changes, and technical change effects on production. This essay is divided into five sections, the first introduces reader to Colombian rice …
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The city design and the new Urban Revolution : conceptualizing catalytic, sustainable development in Mexico's second tier
What is the present role of technical change - particularly change in integrated Information-Communication Technology (ICT) - in facilitating sustainable urbanism in the developing world? Technological advancements are altering consumer demand and behavior, transforming the products, services, …
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