Technical change in a bubble economy: Japanese manufacturing firms in the 1990s

Empirica

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 247-271

  Nakajima, Takanobu ^a   Nakamura, Alice ^b   Nakamura, Emi ^c   Nakamura, Masao ^d,e  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c The Sanford C Bernstein Co Center for Leadership and Ethics   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Economies of scale; Index number method; Japan; Technical change; Total factor productivity

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC CONDITIONS; ECONOMIC GROWTH; ECONOMIC POLICY; INDEX METHOD; INVESTMENT; MANUFACTURING; TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 34250703690     PISSN: 03408744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10663-007-9040-5     Document Type: Article

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