MI Nadiri - 1993 - nber.org
In this paper we analyze the evidence from a large number of studies on three specific
questions pertaining to R&D investment:(1) Are there diminishing returns to inventive
activities?(2) What is the relationship between R&D and productivity and what are the ...
JI Bernstein… - 1988 - nber.org
This paper presents estimates of the productivity and factor bias effects of interindustry R&D
spillovers for five high-tech industries. Each industry is distinguished as a separate spillover
source. The industries are each affected by R&D spillovers and are themselves spillover ...
MI Nadiri - Journal of Economic Literature, 1970 - JSTOR
I am grateful to my colleagues at the National Bureau, Professors VK Chetty, Solomon
Fabricant, John Hause, Christopher Sims, Finis Welch, and Mlfr. Paul Wachtel for reading an
earlier draft of this paper. I also am indebted to Professor Marc Nerlove of the University of ...
MI Nadiri… - 1994 - nber.org
In this paper the authors examine the effects of publicly financed infrastructure and R&D
capitals on the cost structure and productivity performance of twelve two-digit US
manufacturing industries. The results suggest that there are significant productive effects ...
JI Bernstein… - The Review of Economic Studies, 1989 - restud.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract In this paper we estimate a model of production and investment based on the theory
of dynamic duality. We are particularly interested in the effects of R&D spillovers and in
calculating the social and private rates of return. There are three effects associated with ...
…, M Ishaq Nadiri - Journal of Monetary Economics, 1981 - Elsevier
Abstract The demand for real cash balances deduced from an underlying portfolio model of
the financial market is shown to depend upon domestic variables and foreign monetary
developments. The model is estimated using quarterly postwar data for Canada, Germany ...
DH Good, MI Nadiri… - 1996 - nber.org
In this paper we review a number of analytical methods and issues related to identifying and
estimating the source of productivity growth. The two major methods used in measuring
productivity growth--index number and econometric estimation approach--are briefly ...
R Eisner… - The review of economics and statistics, 1968 - JSTOR
I Introduction p HE role of relative prices as a determinant of factor demand has received
wide attention in recent work. Major contributions 1 have been made by Dale W. Jorgenson
who, either alone or with associates, has presented, along with various empirical results ...
MI Nadiri… - 1997 - nber.org
Numerous studies on production and cost, the sources of productivity and studies on
endogenous growth have recognized the pivotal role of the physical capital stock. Also there
is a clear recognition by economists and policy makers that knowledge capital ...
MI Nadiri… - 1973 - nber.org
The research activities of the NBER are funded by grants from federal research agencies, by
private foundations, and by generous donations from our corporate associates and from
private individuals. The NBER is a non-profit, 501 (c)(3) organization. For information on ...
…, M Ishaq Nadiri - Journal of Public Economics, 1996 - Elsevier
This paper estimates and evaluates the contribution of R&D tax incentives and publicly
financed R&D investment policies in promoting the growth of output and privately funded
R&D investment in US manufacturing industries. Publicly financed R&D induced cost ...
MI Nadiri - Econometrica: Journal of the Econometric Society, 1969 - JSTOR
This paper estimates a model specifying the determinants of trade credit in the United States
total manufacturing sector for the postwar period. Trade credit is considered as a selling
expense, like advertising outlays. Its determinants are derived from a profit maximization ...
…, M Ishaq Nadiri - Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 1993 - Elsevier
Abstract We use US input-output data for the 1947–1977 period to analyse the relations
among research and development (R&D), technical change, and intersectoral linkages. Our
most novel finding is that among manufacturing industries, an industry's rate of ...
DH Good, MI Nadiri… - Journal of Productivity analysis, 1993 - Springer
In this paper we carry out technical efficiency and productivity growth comparisons among
the four largest European carriers and eight of their American counterparts. The time period
of our comparisons is 1976 through 1986. This is a particularly interesting period since it ...
JI Bernstein… - 1991 - nber.org
The purpose of this paper is to develop and estimate a model of production with
endogenous technological change. Technological change arises from R&D capital
accumulation decisions. These decisions respond to market and government incentives ...
PA Mohnen, MI Nadiri… - European Economic Review, 1986 - Elsevier
The focus of this paper is an analysis of the production structure, the demand for factor
inputs, and the rates of return in the manufacturing sector of three major industrialized
countries, the United States, Japan and Germany. The analysis is based on a dynamic ...
MI Nadiri… - 1979 - nber.org
The objectives of this preliminary study are threefold. The first is to analyze empirically the
production structure of the Bell System at the aggregate level. Particular attention is focused
on the pattern of substitution among the factor inputs and the degree to which the ...
MI Nadiri… - 1980 - econ.nyu.edu
Producers theory is concerned with the behavior of firms in hiring and combining productive
inputs to supply commodities at appropriate prices. Two sets of issues are involved in this
process: one is the technical constraints which limit the range of feasible productive ...
M Schankerman… - Journal of Econometrics, 1986 - Elsevier
Abstract The paper provides a statistical test to assess the adequacy of the static equilibrium
framework which can be used prior to specifying a fully dynamic equilibrium model. We
develop and apply this test to the production structure and factor demand equations based ...
MI Nadiri - 1979 - nber.org
This paper is an attempt to assess the contribution of R&D to growth of output in US
manufacturing industries. The important issues to address are: whether the slower growth of
R&D expenditures in recent years has been the cause of slowdown in the growth of ...
JI Bernstein… - 1988 - nber.org
R&D investment is an outcome of a corporate plan and is influenced by the exisintg
technology, by prices, by product demand characteristics, and by the legacy of past capital
stock decisions. In this paper we focus on the determinants and interaction of labor, ...
MI Nadiri - Review of Income and Wealth, 1972 - Wiley Online Library
This paper summarizes the results of several studies on total factor productivity of twenty-five
countries over the period 1950–1965. Some methodological issues which underlie the
derivation and calculation of the familiar partial and total factor productivity indices are ...
MI Nadiri… - 1996 - nber.org
In this paper we:(1) estimate the effects of international R&D spillovers on total factor
productivity growth of the seven largest industrialized countries (G-7);(2) analyze the effect of
spillovers on the structure of production, ie, the effects on factor demand such as labor and ...
SB Mun… - 2002 - nber.org
Using interindustry transaction in input-output tables, we examine Information Technology
(IT) externalities in US private industries over the period 1984-2000. Our empirical results
show that computerization of an industry's customer and supplier industries reduces both ...
MI Nadiri - 1980 - nber.org
In this paper an attempt is made to answer two questions: 1) What set of factors explains the
recent slowdown of the US aggregate labor productivity, and 2) whether the same set of
forces account for the slowdown of sectoral productivity growth as well. We specify a ...
MI Nadiri… - 1996 - 204.68.195.100
The United States and many other advanced industrial countries are concerned about the
slowdown in productivity growth since the early 1970s. Major factors considered in the
literature as potential causes of the decline in productivity growth include one or more of ...
MI Nadiri - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1969 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract I. Introduction, 173.—II. The setting of the problem, 174.—III. Specifications of the
model, 175.—IV. The empirical results, 180.—V. The adjustment properties and forecasting
performance of the model, 187.—VI. Conceptual experiments, 189.—VII. Conclusions, 193 ...
MI Nadiri… - 1999 - nber.org
In this paper we discuss recent advances in modeling and estimating dynamic factor
demand models, and review the use of such models in analyzing the production structure,
the determinants of variable and quasi-fixed factors, and productivity growth. The paper ...
MI Nadiri… - 1996 - nber.org
We estimate and compare the production structures of the US, Japanese, and Korean total
manufacturing sectors for the 1974-1990 period. We employ a translog variable cost function
that includes such inputs as labor, materials, physical and R&D capital with the physical ...
MI Nadiri… - 1991 - nber.org
During the 1970s the growth rates of labor productivity in the Japanese manufacturing sector
dramatically exceeded those of the United States, particularly in such key industries as
primary metals, chemicals, electrical machinery, and transportation equipment. This ...
[CITATION] Contribution of highway capital to output and productivity growth in the US economy and industries
MI Nadiri… - Report prepared for the Federal Highway …, 1998
MI Nadiri… - 1994 - nber.org
In this paper we examine the effects of publicly financed infrastructure and R&D capital on
the cost structure and productivity performance of twelve two-digit US manufacturing
industries. A general framework is developed to measure contribution of demand, relative ...
MI Nadiri - The Review of Economic Studies, 1968 - JSTOR
The recent revival of interest in determinants of employment behaviour has covered much
ground. However, the theoretical formulations and the empirical estimation of the problem
have not sufficiently progressed. This is in contrast to the advances in the formulation and ...
JI Bernstein… - 1982 - nber.org
In this stuy a dynamic model of firm behavior is developed which integrates real and
financial decisions. The model combines the effects of capital structure and input adjustirent
costs on the process of capital accumulation. The existence, uniqueness and stability ...
MI Nadiri… - Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 1990 - Elsevier
Abstract Prucha and Nadiri (1982, 1986, 1988) introduced a methodology to estimate
systems of dynamic factor demand that allows for considerable flexibility in both the choice
of the functional form of the technology and the expectation formation process. This paper ...
MI Nadiri… - 1980 - nber.org
M. Ishaq Nadiri is at New York University and the National Bureau of Eco-nomic Research.
George C. Bitros is with the Bank of Greece. The research for this paper was supported by
the National Science Foundation (SOC 74—16295). We are indebted to Shoshona Livnat ...
IR Prucha… - Journal of Econometrics, 1986 - Elsevier
Abstract Several approaches to the formulation and estimation of dynamic factor demand
systems under non-static expectations on the exogenous variables in the firm's decision
process have been suggested. Among those approaches there are trade-offs in terms of ...
MI Nadiri… - The American Economic Review, 1981 - JSTOR
The recent slowdown in the growth of productivity in the United States has attracted
considerable attention. The deceleration has been attributed to many factors, including a
slowdown in the growth of capital intensity and the stock of R&D, changes in the sectoral ...
IR Prucha… - Journal of Econometrics, 1996 - Elsevier
The literature on dynamic factor demand models has, until recently, largely overlooked the
issue of capital utilization. In this paper we allow for variations in the rate of capital utilization
within the context of a dynamic factor demand model by adopting a modeling framework ...
DH Good, MI Nadiri… - 1991 - nber.org
In this paper we construct a short run model of the firm describing the behavior of thirteen US
airlines during the difficult transition to deregulation. Several modeling scenarios are
developed to assess three common assumptions in cost studies: the use of time as a ...
MI Nadiri… - Information Economics and Policy, 1997 - Elsevier
This paper formulates a multiproduct structural model to examine the evolution of the
structures of production and demand and their dynamic interaction, over an extended
period, 1935–1987, in the US telecommunications industry. We estimate the degree of ...
R Eisner… - The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1970 - JSTOR
In our" Investment Behavior and Neo-Classical Theory"[14], we pointed out that major,
purportedly empirical findings of Dale W. Jorgenson and James A. Stephenson (JS)[24, 25]
depended critically upon their assumptions. We focused primary attention on what they ...
MI Nadiri… - Review of Economics and Statistics, 1999 - MIT Press
This paper examines the sources of productivity growth for the, US telecommunications
industry from 1935 to 1987. These years encompass both the pre-and post-AT&T divestiture
periods. We formulate a structural model that accounts for both changes in the cost and ...
M Schankerman… - 1982 - nber.org
This paper proposes a framework which integrates convex costs of adjustment and
expectations formation in the determination of investment decisions in R&D at the firm level.
The model is based on cost minimization subject to the firm's expectations of the stream of ...
PT Hultberg, MI Nadiri, RC Sickles… - Annales d'Economie et de …, 1999 - JSTOR
We propose a dynamic model that estends the neoclassical growth model by including
technology diffusion and possible inefficiency caused by institutional rigidities. We use
alternative panel data methods to estimate the model for three regions: Europe, Latin ...
TP Mamuneas… - 1997 - nber.org
This paper estimates and evaluates the contributions of R&D tax incentives and publicly
financed R&D investment policies in promoting growth of output and privately funded R&D
investment in US manufacturing industries. Publicly financed R&D induces cost savings ...
H Chun… - 2002 - nber.org
In this paper, we examine the sources of the productivity growth in the US computer industry
from 1978 to 1999. We estimate a joint production model of output quantity and quality that
distinguishes two types of technological changes: process and product innovations. ...
MI Nadiri - Journal of Political Economy, 1972 - econ.nyu.edu
The issue of integrating the demand for research and development expenditure of the firm
with its demand for conventional inputs such as labor and physical capital has not received
sufficient attention. The need for such an undertaking is clear: R&D, like expenditure on ...
JI Bernstein… - 1988 - nber.org
In this paper we develop a general intertemporal model of production, emphasizing the role
of present and expected future corporate income taxes, credits and allowances along with
costly adjustment and variable utilization of the quasi-fixed factors. Three specific issues ...
JI Bernstein… - 1993 - nber.org
The purpose of this paper is to estimate a model that incorporates the effects of financial
decisions on production, profitability, and productivity growth. Asymmetric information
generates agency costs of debt and signaling benefits of dividends which then influence ...
M Schankerman… - 1987 - nber.org
This paper provides a statistical test to assess the adequacy of static equilibrium models.
The test is based on a restricted cost function framework together with the envelope
conditions which characterize static equilibrium for the quasi-fixed factors. We also show ...
MI Nadiri… - 1977 - nber.org
The American economy is in the midst of both a price and a cost in-flation of unprecedented
magnitude. The causes of these developments are diverse and of unknown power.
Substantial increases in the growth of money supply, federal budget deficits, large wage ...
IR Prucha… - 1982 - nber.org
This paper proposes a discrete model of investment behavior that incorporates general
nonstatic expectations with a general cost of adjustment technology. The combination of
these two features usually leads to a set of highly nonlinear first order conditions for the ...
MI Nadiri… - International journal of production economics, 1997 - ideas.repec.org
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[CITATION] Sources of growth in East Asian economies
MI Nadiri… - New York University (July), 1998
S Rosen… - The American Economic Review, 1974 - JSTOR
Production technology and profit maximizing behavior imply that derived demands for
factors of production are necessarily interdependent. Yet the literature on employment and
investment functions has not fully appreciated or exploited this interdependence: most ...
MI Nadiri… - Traditional telecommunications networks, 2003 - books.google.com
The term'infrastructure'generally describes large social overhead capital such as roads,
bridges, sewer facilities, electricity generation and distribution, and communications
networks. These infrastructures provide the basic framework for a nation to support ...
PT Hultberg, MI Nadiri… - Empirical economics, 2004 - Springer
We analyze how technology transfer from a leading economy affects followers' productivity
growth in manufacturing sectors and Gross Domestic Product. Allowing for heterogeneous
technology levels we explore how this impacts rates of catch-up in labor productivity ...
H Chun… - The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2008 - MIT Press
Abstract In this paper, we examine the sources of the productivity growth in the US computer
industry from 1978 to 1999. We estimate a joint production model of output quantity and
quality that distinguishes two types of technological changes: process and product ...
EN Wolff… - 1980 - econ.nyu.edu
Introduction Assessing the economic impact of changes in the minimum wage level and
coverage has been a controversial public policy issue. A number of theoretical and empirical
models have been formulated to trace the effects of changes in minimum wage legislation ...
[CITATION] Research and Development, Spillovers and Adjustment Costs: An Application of Dynamic Duality at the Firm Level
JI Bernstein… - 1984 - Dept. of Economics], Carleton …
IR Prucha… - Economics Letters, 1988 - Elsevier
Abstract Estimators are often defined as the maximizing values of some objective function.
This note introduces an algorithm for the computation of such estimators for the parameters
of a system of equations where some of the variables are implicitly defined by an auxiliary ...
MI Nadiri, F Modigliani… - Brookings Papers on Economic …, 1972 - JSTOR
DESPITE A VAST LITERATURE ON THE DETERMINANTS of investment behavior,
questions about the way in which relative prices and output influence investment
expenditures have not been satisfactorily resolved. In the" neoclassical" investment ...
JI Bernstein… - 1988 - nber.org
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the determinants of capital durability and utilization
and their interdependence with investment decisions. The approach is based on the view
that the flow of undepreciated capital is an output to be used in future production. At each ...
[CITATION] Constitution of highway capital to industry and national productivity groups
IM Nadiri… - Report prepared for Office of Policy Development, …, 1996
[CITATION] M. and TP Mamuneas, 1996
I Nadiri - Constitution of Highway Capital to Industry and …
MI Nadiri - 1986 - nber.org
In this paper we look at some empiricel evidence of and theoretical rationale for price
inflexibility in the face of a decrease in short run demand in the Western-type industrialized
economies. The empirical evidence suggests that price sluggishness is pervasive but ...
MI Nadiri… - 1980 - nber.org
We formulate a variable cost function model in which certain inputs are treated as quasi-
fixed, and develop a simple statistical test of whether optimization occurs for the quasi-fixed
inputs. It is shown how to retrieve characteristics of the long-run cost function from the ...
MI Nadiri - Preliminary Papers for a Colloquium on the …, 1977 - econ.nyu.edu
These issues take on added significance since the rate of growth of total R 5 D in the US has
slowed down considerably in the 1970's; R 5 D is no longer a growth industry. From 1953 to
1961, R § D expenditure in real terms increased at an average of 13.9% a year for ...
IR Prucha… - 1991 - nber.org
Studies of the firm's demand for factor inputs often assume a constant rate of utilization of the
inputs and ignore the fact that the firm can simultaneously choose the level and the rate of
utilization of its inputs. In particular, the literature on dynamic factor demand models has, ...
PA Mohnen, MI Nadiri… - 1983 - en.scientificcommons.org
Abstract The paper analyzes the production structure and the demand for inputs in three
major industrialized countries, the US, Japan and Germany. A dynamic factor demand
model with two variable inputs (labor and energy) and two quasi-fixed inputs (capital and ...
[CITATION] Product Demand, Production Cost, and Interindustry R&D Spillovers
JI Bernstein… - 1997 - mimeo, New York University, b http:// …
MI Nadiri… - Economics of Innovation and New …, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
In this paper we empirically estimate the contribution of the communications infrastructure to
the growth of output and productivity at the dis-aggregate industry and at the aggregate
economy levels. The estimated value of the marginal benefits or the shadow price of the ...
[CITATION] The structure of production and technical change in a multiproduct industry: An application to the airline industry
DH Good, MI Nadiri… - Unpublished manuscript, Rice University, 1987
[CITATION] The Importance of technology and the permanence of structure in industrial growth: proceedings of a symposium at IUI, Stockholm, July 18-19, 1977
B Carlsson, G Eliasson… - 1978 - Coronet Books Inc
WC Labys, MI Nadiri… - 1980 - nber.org
There are a number of reasons for examining the role of commodity markets in the economic
development of Latin American economies. The majority of Latin American countries are
heavily dependent on primary commodities for the bulk of their export earnings, and this ...
…, M Ishaq Nadiri - Economics Letters, 1991 - Elsevier
Economics Letters 35 (1991) 123129 123 NorthHolland On the specification of accelerator coefficients
in dynamic factor demand models Ingmar R. Prucha University of Maryland, College Park, MD
20742, USA National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA M. ...
[CITATION] kInnovations and Technological Spillovers
NM Ishaq - NBER working paper, 1993
[CITATION] Contribution of highway capital infrastructure to industry and aggregate productivity growth'
MI Nadiri… - 1996 - … , Work Order No. BAT-94-008
[CITATION] Contribution of Highway Capital to Industry and National Productivity Growth. Federal Highway Administration
MI Nadiri… - 1996 - September
MI Nadiri - Infrastructure in the 21st Century Economy, 1993 - DTIC Document
Since 1973 there has been major concern in the United States and other advanced
industrial countries about the slowdown of productivity growth. There have been many
attempts to identify the sources of this slowdown in the US. Many explanations have been ...
[CITATION] R&D, Production Structure and Rates of Return in the US, Japanese and Korean Manufacturing Sectors: a Non-Sector Model
MI Nadiri… - NBER working paper, 1996
P Mohnen… - Revue économique, 1985 - JSTOR
L'étude vise à comparer deux modèles de coûts d'ajustement, et à quantifier l'impact du
déséquilibre dans les facteurs de production sur la croissance et le ralentissement de la
productivité du travail. Un modèle de production brute et un modèle de valeur ajoutée ...
[CITATION] Tax Incentives and Innovation Expenditures'
MI Nadiri - Tax Policy and Investment in Innovation, National …, 1982
[CITATION] Increase in Defense Expenditure and its Impact on the US Economy
MI Nadiri - Constraints on Strategy—The Economics of Western …, 1986
S Arango… - 1979 - nber.org
Traditional studies on demand for money have often ignored influence of foreign monetary
developments. The literature on international capital mobility, on the other hand, focuses on
the impact of adjustments in international reserves on domestic money supply with the ...
[CITATION] Indexation; the Brazilian experience
MI Nadiri… - 1977 - National Bureau of Economic …
MI Nadiri… - CR Hulten, University of Chicago …, 1990 - en.scientificcommons.org
[CITATION] A Disequilibrium Model of Demand for Factors of Production. New York: Nat. Bur
MI Nadiri… - Econ. Res, 1973
JI Bernstein, MI Nadiri… - 1984 - en.scientificcommons.org
Abstract R&D investment is an outcome of a corporate plan and is influenced by the exisintg
technology, by prices, by product demand characteristics, and by the legacy of past capital
stock decisions. In this paper we focus on the determinants and interaction of labor, ...
MI Nadiri… - Borderline case: international tax …, 1997 - books.google.com
An important characteristic of R&D investment distinguishing it from other types of
investment is that its output has the properties of public goods; it can be considered at least
partially nonexcludable and nonrivalrous. 1 Indeed, the empirical literature provides ...
[CITATION] Some Approaches to the Theory and Measurement of Total Factor Productivity
M Ishaq Nadiri - J. Econ. Literature, 1970
[CITATION] Contributions and Determinants of Research and Development
IM Nadiri - George M. von Furstenberg, ed., Capital, Efficiency and …
[CITATION] The Structure of Production, Technological Change, and the Rate of Growth of TFP in the US Bell System
MI Nadiri… - Productivity Measurement in Regulated Industry (New …, 1981
[CITATION] Contribution of Highway Capital to Industry and National Productivity Growth,” Report Prepared for Apogee Research, Inc., for the Federal Highway …
MI Nadiri… - Work Order Number BAT-94-008, 1996
P Mohnen, MI Nadiri… - 1984 - nber.org
The paper analyzes the production structure and the demand for inputs in three major
industrialized countries, the US, Japan and Germany. A dynamic factor demand model with
two variable inputs (labor and energy) and two quasi-fixed inputs (capital and R&D) is ...
MI Nadiri, SS Roach… - 1974 - econ.as.nyu.edu
Recently, multivariate generalizations of the well known flexible accelerator have been
introduced as a viable framewprk to accomodate empirical studies of interrelated factor
demand functions. The rationale for using this type of system as a vehicle to examine the ...
[CITATION] Selected Economic Writings of William J. Baumol
EE Bailey… - 1976 - NY University Press
[CITATION] Dynamic Factor Models, Productivity Measurement, and Rates of Return: Theory and an Empirical Application to the US Bell System.”
MI Nadiri… - 1989 - National Bureau of Economic …
[CITATION] Contribution of Highway capital Infrastructure to Industry and Aggregate Productivity Growth, A report prepared for the Federal Highway Administration …
MI Nadiri… - Work Order No. BAT-94-008, 1996
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