THE EFFECTS OF LEARNING BY DOING ON NUCLEAR PLANT OPERATING RELIABILITY.
This paper proposes to examine two aspects of learning by doing by examining the output produced by a sample of U.S. and foreign nuclear plants over time. First, authors have examined how cumulative plant experience allows a firm to utilize a particular piece of equipment more efficiently, in the ca...
| Publicado en: | Review of Economics & Statistics Vol. 61; no. 2; pp. 161 - 169 |
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