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How should a policy-maker prioritize interventions to improve the public infrastructure with which firms operate and how large are the benefits from doing so likely to be? To address these questions we use survey data on the obstacles arising from poor quality public inputs that managers face in...
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We use data from over 20,000 firms in 60 countries to identify constraints on the growth of firms. We interpret managers’ answers to survey questions on the extent to which various aspects of their external environment inhibit the performance of their firm as measuring the shadow cost of...
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Despite massive regional policy efforts, GDP per capita in Southern Italy has only briefly converged on Northern Italian levels (during the 1960s). Failure since then is associated with a policy switch from investment towards income maintenance, with reduced wage sensitivity to regional labour...
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process of transition of the state-owned enterprise sector. A set of theoretical tools is assembled which permits the analysis …
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transition countries. These data have three main advantages. First, while in a market economy firms face widely divergent needs … agencies; and we collect data directly on various measures of innovative activity. Third, the fact that transition countries …
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that at the end of planning, transition countries had substantially different endowments from their contemporaneous non-transition … transition in 2002-05, poor transition economies differ much more from their non-transition counterparts, in respect to both good … and bad aspects of the planning legacy, than do relatively rich transition countries. However, the persistent beneficial …
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