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The Productivity Effects of Privatization: Longitudinal Estimates from Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Almos - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2005
This paper estimates the effect of privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long panel data for nearly the … models imply that majority privatization raises MFP about 15% in Romania, 8% in Hungary, and 2% in Ukraine, while in Russia …. Positive domestic effects appear within a year in Hungary, Romania, and Ukraine and continue growing thereafter, but take 5 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005030679
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Does Privatization Raise Productivity? Evidence from Comprehensive Panel Data on Manufacturing Firms in Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Almos - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2004
We analyze the impact of privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long panel data for nearly the universe … Romania, 22 percent in Hungary, and 3 percent in Ukraine, with some variation across specifications, while in Russia it lowers … much more consistent across countries. The positive effects emerge within a year in Hungary, Romania, and Ukraine and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005116752
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Recent Advances in the Empirics of Organizational Economics
Bloom, Nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; Reenen, John Van - In: Annual Review of Economics 2 (2010) 1, pp. 105-137
decentralization. Productivity dispersion between firms and countries has motivated the improved measurement of firm organization … relationship is complex, and identification of the productivity effects of organizational practices remains a challenge for future …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009226035
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Green innovations and organisational change: making better use of environmental technology
Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhäuser, Sascha; Veugelers, Reinhilde - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
The literature on within-firm organizational change and productivity suggests that firms can make more efficient use of … technologies and that joint adoption leads to higher productivity. Without having introduced complementary organizational … innovations, the adoption of CO2 reducing technologies is associated with lower productivity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084545
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Does access to credit improve productivity? Evidence from Bulgarian firms
Gatti, Roberta; Love, Inessa - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
overdraft facility on productivity. To overcome potential omitted variable bias of OLS estimates, we use information on firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791591
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Recent Developments in Fisheries Economics Research
Kronbak, Lone Grønbæk; Squires, Dale; Vestergaard, Niels - In: International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics 7 (2014) 1, pp. 67-108
Fisheries economics stand on the cusp of potentially sizeable changes in orientation and policy focus, leading in turn to comparable changes in modeling and general analysis. Notably, fisheries are increasingly framed as part of the overall marine environment rather than considered as solely or...
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Sources of Firm Life-Cycle Dynamics: Differentiating Size vs. Age Effects
Kueng, Lorenz; Yang, Mu-Jeung; Hong, Bryan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
What determines firm growth over the life-cycle? Exploiting unique firm panel data on internal organization, balance sheets and innovation, representative of the entire Canadian economy, we study recent theories that examine life-cycle patterns for firm growth. These theories include...
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The Relationship between Unit Cost and Cumulative Quantity and the Evidence for Organizational Learning-by-Doing
Thompson, Peter - In: Journal of Economic Perspectives 26 (2012) 3, pp. 203-24
The concept of a learning curve for individuals has been around since the beginning of the twentieth century. The idea that an analogous phenomenon might also apply at the level of the organization took longer to emerge, but it had begun to figure prominently in military procurement and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010611152
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Rising Trade Costs? Agglomeration and Trade with Endogenous Transaction Costs
Duranton, Gilles; Storper, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
While transport costs have fallen, the empirical evidence also points at rising total trade costs. In a model of industry location with endogenous transaction costs, we show how and under which conditions a decline in transport costs can lead to an increase in the total cost of trade.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504426
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Business Strategy and the Management of Firms
Yang, Mu-Jeung; Kueng, Lorenz; Hong, Bryan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
Business strategy can be defined as a firm's plan to generate economic profits based on lower cost, better quality, or new products. The analysis of business strategy is thus at the intersection of market competition and a firm's efforts to secure persistently superior performance via...
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