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Corporate Efficiency in Europe
Hanousek, Jan; Kocenda, Evzen; Shamshur, Anastasiya - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
Using a stochastic frontier model and a comprehensive dataset, we study factors that affect corporate efficiency in … Europe. We find that (i) larger firms are less efficient than smaller firms, (ii) greater leverage contributes to corporate … efficiency, and (iii) high competition is less conductive to efficiency than moderate or low competition. In terms of ownership …
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Corporate Culture, Societal Culture, and Institutions
Guiso, Luigi; Sapienza, Paola; Zingales, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
While both cultural and legal norms (institutions) help foster cooperation, culture is the more primitive of the two and itself sustains formal institutions. Cultural changes are rarer and slower than changes in legal institutions, which makes it difficult to identify the role played by culture....
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The Value of Corporate Culture
Guiso, Luigi; Sapienza, Paola; Zingales, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
We study which dimensions of corporate culture are related to a firm’s performance and why. We find that proclaimed values appear irrelevant. Yet, when employees perceive top managers as trustworthy and ethical, firm’s performance is stronger. We then study how different governance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084023
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Simultaneous Search and Network Efficiency
Gautier, Pieter A; Holzner, Christian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
When workers send applications to vacancies they create a network. Frictions arise if workers do not know where other workers apply to (this affects network creation) and firms do not know which candidates other firms consider (this affects network clearing). We show that those frictions and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009246606
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Inattention to Rare Events
Mackowiak, Bartosz Adam; Wiederholt, Mirko - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Why were people so unprepared for the global financial crisis, the European debt crisis, and the Fukushima nuclear accident? To address this question, we study a model in which agents make state-contingent plans - think about actions in different contingencies - subject to the constraint that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009351517
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Assessing the impact of Mali’s water privatization across stakeholders
Estache, Antonio; Grifell-Tatjé, Emili - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
indicator duality and production theory. The paper shows that users benefited through lower real water prices -although users in … shows that taxpayers are the main losers as subsidies are still needed. There are also serious efficiency-equity trade …
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Flat Tax Reforms in the US: A Boon for the Income Poor
Díaz-Giménez, Javier; Pijoan-Mas, Josep - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
In this article we quantify the aggregate, distributional and welfare consequences of two revenue neutral flat-tax reforms using a model economy that replicates the U.S. distributions of earnings, income and wealth in very much detail. We find that the less progressive reform brings about a 2.4%...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662104
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The Term Structure of Forward Exchange Premia and the Forecastability of Spot Exchange Rates: Correcting the Errors
Clarida, Richard; Taylor, Mark P - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993
This paper challenges the widespread view that forward exchange premia contain little information regarding subsequent spot rate movements. Using weekly dollar/Deutschmark and dollar/sterling data, we show that spot and forward exchange rates are well represented by a vector error correction...
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Credit Risk Transfer and Financial Sector Performance
Marsh, Ian W; Wagner, Wolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
In this Paper we study the impact of credit risk transfer (CRT) on the stability and the efficiency of a financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662362
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Training and Unions
Booth, Alison L; Chatterji, Monojit - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
The paper examines the optimal level of training investment when trained workers are mobile, wage contracts are time-consistent, and training comprises both specific and general skills. It is shown that, in the absence of a social planner, the firm has ex-post monopsonistic power that drives...
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