26-January-2015
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Measuring Potential Output at the Bank of Canada: The Extended Multivariate Filter and the Integrated Framework
Staff Discussion Paper 2015-1- Bank of Canada This paper first provides an assessment of the extended multivariate filter (EMVF), which the Bank has used since the late 1990s to come up with a baseline measure of the output gap. It then presents a modified version of the EMVF incorporating revised conditioning information.
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1-January-2015
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Working time accounts and firm performance in Germany
This study, by Lutz Bellmann and Olaf Hübler, investigates whether working time accounts affect the performance of German establishments based on the Establishment Panel from the Institute for Employment Research.
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1-January-2015
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Structural change and total factor productivity: Evidence from Germany
This paper, by Henze, Philipp, uses a long time series of German employment data to test the theory of Ngai & Pissarides (2007). The theory suggests that the shift of employment shares from manufacturing to services is due to divergent growth rates of total factor productivity (TFP) in the two sectors. To test the theoretical predictions, I use the "Establishment History Panel" together with sectoral data on total factor productivity.
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1-December-2014
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Private and External Benefits from Investment in Intangible Assets
This BIS research paper studies the micro-evidence on innovation activity at firm level in the UK. The main aim of the report is to assess the network effects generated by individual firms’ decisions on intangible innovation activities. The report has been prepared by the Institute for International Management Practice (LAIBS, Anglia Ruskin University) for the UK Department of Business Innovation and Skills (BIS).
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1-December-2014
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From Sick Man of Europe to Economic Superstar: Germany’s Resurgent Economy
This article, by Christian Dustmann, Bernd Fitzenberger, Uta Schönberg, and Alexandra Spitz-Oener, presents evidence that the specific governance structure of the German labor market institutions allowed them to react flexibly in a time of extraordinary economic circumstances, and that this distinctive characteristic of its labor market institutions has been the main reason for Germany’s economic success over the last decade.
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10-October-2014
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ABS Cat. No. 1351.0.55.052 - Research Paper: Firm
Using a large panel of businesses, tracking firms from 2002-11, this study examines the productivity of firms in manufacturing and business services and, in particular the contribution of entry and exit to aggregate productivity growth.
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5-September-2014
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Managerial capital and business R&D as enablers of productivity convergence
This paper explores the role of managerial capital and business research and development (R&D) in fostering multifactor productivity convergence in a panel of 42 countries.
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1-September-2014
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Firm Strategy, Competitiveness andProductivity: The Case of Canada
This article summarizes the results of a survey designed to explore the issues of firm strategies with respect to competitiveness and productivity.
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17-June-2014
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Do resources flow to patenting firms? Cross-country evidence from firm level data
This paper exploits longitudinal data on firm performance and patenting activity for 23 OECD countries over the period 2003-2010 to explore the extent to which changes in the patent stock are associated with flows of capital and labour to patenting firms.
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1-June-2014
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How to account for the drop-off in France's per capita GDP in the last 40 years?
This study sheds light on the different factors affecting low GDP growth in France between 1975 and 2012.