Browsing by Subject "Productivity"

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    • Empirical evidence on R&D targeting and transitions 
      Álvarez Espinoza, Roberto; Bravo Ortega, Claudio; Poniachik Calderón, Dan (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2015-04)
      Over the last five decades a growing number of governments in developed and developing countries have implemented targeting policies to increase the R&D to GDP ratio. However, until now there have been few attempts either ...
    • Exporting and plant-level efficiency gains: It’s in the measure 
      García Marín, Alvaro; Voigtländer, Nico (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2015)
      While there is strong evidence for productivity-driven selection into exporting, the empirical literature has struggled to identify export-related efficiency gains within plants. Previous research typically derived revenue ...
    • Heterogeneous entrepreneurs, creation and destruction: a simple model 
      Landerretche Moreno, Óscar (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2007)
      We construct an economy with heterogeneous entrepreneurs in productivity, wealth and also size, with contracting originating from a hidden action problem. This economy generates dual margins with high productivity firms ...