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- Ndagijimana, Joseph, et al.
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Econometric analysis of business start-ups in Rwanda
- 2019
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Ingår i: Economic Transformation for Poverty Reduction in Africa: A Multidimensional Approach. - Revised 1st edition. | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. | Series: Routledge studies in development economics ; 134 : Routledge. - 9781000000184 - 9780367219451 - 9780367219468 ; , s. 241-265
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Nilsson, Pia, 1980-, et al.
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Introduction and Summary
- 2019
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Ingår i: Efficiency, equity and well-being in selected African countries. - Cham : Springer. - 9783030114190 ; , s. 1-8
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This volume is a collection of studies on poverty and well-being, vulnerability to poverty, women’s empowerment and smallholders’ efficiency in selected African countries. It has a collection of 12 empirical studies that have an overall focus on poverty, well-being and vulnerability to poverty and includes contributions by 19 authors. The studies aim at increasing our knowledge about the factors that influence poverty and well-being. This is important as it can help alleviate many of the persistent challenges observed across Africa. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019.
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- Noh, Bobae, et al.
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Does official development assistance affect a donor’s exports? South Korea’s case
- 2021
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Ingår i: SN Business & Economics. - : Springer. - 2662-9399. ; 1:10
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper studies the impact of official development assistance (ODA) provided by South Korea for its exports to recipient countries. The empirical analysis is based on data from 1996 to 2014 and covers 121 recipient countries. The paper uses a 3SLS estimation method that accounts for a two-way causal relationship between ODA and exports while the endogeneity and sample selection bias are accounted for. Using the gravity model, we confirm the positive effects of ODA when fixed unobserved effects are controlled. The model is further generalized by disaggregating ODA into its underlying types of aid. Our results show that technical cooperation and loans have positive and significant effects, but grants have a negative impact on South Korea’s exports to recipient countries. In addition, we also examine South Korea’s ODA allocations. Our findings suggest that there is a two-stage decision-making process in the provision of aid. In the first stage, the aid’s humanitarian purpose plays a key role in responding to countries’ needs even when there is lower bilateral trade with these countries. In the second stage, decisions regarding the size of ODA are considered and these present a mixed purpose for giving ODA to higher importer countries.
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- Oh, Dong-hyun, et al.
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A sequential Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index : Environmentally sensitive productivity growth considering the progressive nature of technology
- 2010
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Ingår i: Energy Economics. - : Elsevier BV. - 0140-9883 .- 1873-6181. ; 32:6, s. 1345-1355
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study proposes an index for measuring environmentally sensitive productivity growth which appropriately considers the nature of technical change. The rationale of this methodology is to exclude a spurious technical regress from the macroeconomic perspective. In order to incorporate this in developing the index, a directional distance function and the concept of the successive sequential production possibility set are combined. With this combination, the conventional Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index is modified to give the sequential Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index. This index is employed in measuring environmentally sensitive productivity growth and its decomposed components of 26 OECD countries for the period 1970-2003. We distinguish two main empirical findings. First, even though the components of the conventional Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index and the proposed index are different, the trends of rates of average productivity growth are similar. Second, unlike in previous studies, the efficiency change is the main contributor to the earlier study period, whereas the effect of technical change has prevailed over time.
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- Oh, Donghyun, et al.
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Technical change and total factor productivity growth for Swedish manufacturing and service industries
- 2012
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Ingår i: Applied Economics. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0003-6846 .- 1466-4283. ; 44:18, s. 2373-2391
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article presents alternative specifications of the production functions of a large panel of Swedish firms for the period 1992 to 2000. The period can be characterized as a transition when long-run productivity growth in the Swedish economy improved from being among the weakest to one of the strongest within the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). In order to present a detailed exploration of this dramatic change, the time trend and general index models are applied to estimate Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth, rate of technical change and returns to scale. The models are extended to allow for firm specific as well as time-varying technical change. The parametric TFP measures are also compared with the nonparametric Solow residual, and several hypotheses are tested to explain the growth patterns in the Swedish economy. It is found that the improved growth rate, initially starting in large exporting manufacturing firms, after a deep economic crisis at the beginning of the 1990s, spilled over to the rest of the economy, both manufacturing and services.
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- Oh, Donghyun, et al.
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Total factor productivity of Korean manufacturing industries : Comparison of competing models with firm-level data
- 2014
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Ingår i: Japan and The World Economy. - : Elsevier BV. - 0922-1425 .- 1879-2006. ; 30, s. 25-36
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper presents the parametric estimation of the rates of technical change and total factor productivity (TFP) growth of 7462 Korean manufacturing firms over the period 1987-2007. Two alternative formulations of technical change measured by the time trend and the general index approaches are estimated with panel data models assuming flexible functional forms. Several extensions of each approach are also considered and their benefits and limitations are discussed. In addition to making estimates of the TFP growth and its decomposition, the paper compares the parametric TFP growth measure with the non-parametric Solow residual serving as a benchmark. Several hypotheses related to technology level, firm sizes, industrial sectors, skill biased technological change and macroeconomic and industrial policies are tested to explain the growth patterns and heterogeneity in technical change, input biases and TFP growth rates. Using second regression analysis, the paper explores the determinants of TFP growth and their policy implications.
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- Oh, I., et al.
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Analysis of product efficiency in the Korean automobile market from a consumer’s perspective
- 2010
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Ingår i: Empirical Economics. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0377-7332 .- 1435-8921. ; 38:1, s. 119-137
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this study we develop and describe a conceptual and methodological framework to measure technical and allocative efficiency at the product level considering consumer choice, which encompasses overall efficiency. Empirically, we combined data envelopment analysis and a discrete choice model in order to measure efficiency levels. The suggested framework is applied to the Korean automobile market. The relationship between the level of efficiency and market performance is discussed in terms of market share. ©Springer-Verlag 2009.
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- Oh, Inha, et al.
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Can energy service companies promote ‘green’ growth? : The Korean case
- 2016
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Ingår i: Energy and Environment. - 0958-305X .- 2048-4070. ; 27:3-4, s. 420-433
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study aims to investigate the performance of energy service companies with support from the Korean government. In particular, we focus on the amount and quality of jobs created by energy service company businesses. From the results, we can observe some characteristics of the Korean energy service company industry, which is very volatile with a high turnover rate for the participating firms. The dwindling profitability within the industry appears to be the main reason for the high turnover rate. However, some firms have accumulated the capacities and experiences of the industry and are enjoying monopolistic profits. Job creation for firms conducting energy service company business is higher compared to other similar firms in the same industries studied. However, the quality of newly created jobs measured by the wage level is lower, which by social planners is seen as a worrying trend.
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- Oh, I., et al.
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Comparative analysis of plant dynamics by size : Korean manufacturing
- 2009
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Ingår i: Japanese Economic Review. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1352-4739 .- 1468-5876. ; 60:4, s. 512-538
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A comparative analysis on Korean manufacturing plants is performed by size of plants and sources of TFP growth are decomposed into entry, exit, and survival effects of plants, focusing on the pre- and post-crisis periods. Additional survival analyses investigate internal and external determinants of the survival of plants. The results indicate that the exit of small- and medium-sized establishments (SMEs) with higher productivity is becoming problematic in the post-crisis period. The improvements in large-scale establishments (LSEs) after the crisis appeared to occur generally in high-technology industrial sectors; SMEs in low-technology industries are suffering from a sluggish market selection process. ©2009 The Authors. Journal compilation ©2009 Japanese Economic Association.
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