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I review a contemporary branch of the informal sector literature that focus on understanding the way firm behavior is affected by the presence of informality and how such distortions have an impact on aggregate variables. The authors in this group all make use of dynamic general equilibrium...
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This paper uses firm-level data for Mexican exporters to understand how firm-level export decisions shape a country's aggregate exports. The data allows for a characterization of both the crosssectional distribution of Mexican exports, across destinations and across exporting firms, and of the...
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of a technique depends on both the productivity embodied in the technique and the cost of the particular input; when … productivity depends on whether the lower cost firms are the important suppliers of inputs. When the share of intermediate goods in … production is high, the lower cost firms are selected as suppliers more frequently. This raises aggregate productivity and also …
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percent for total factor productivity. Overall, the distortions explain about 67 percent of the variation in income per worker …
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We study how total factor productivity (TFP), energy prices, and the Great Moderation are linked. First we estimate a … negatively affected productivity. This spillover has since disappeared. Second, we show that within the framework of a dynamic … stochastic general equilibrium model, the disappearance of this energy-productivity spillover generates the significantly lower …
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We use data on Austrian firms and employees to estimate the effects of employer-provided training on productivity … general, we find a robust positive elasticity of training on productivity of about 0.04. In-house training is more effective …
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linking this to productivity, which turns out to be important. The paper also provides an example of modeling productivity …
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: interest rate parity, productivity based models, and a composite specification incorporating the real interest differential …
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-of-sample prediction of a wider set of models that have been proposed in the last decade, namely interest rate parity, productivity based …
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