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productivity in the generation segment of the industry. Controlling explicitly for sources of price-heterogeneity across firms and …
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The paper focuses on labor and product market deregulations, as fundamental elements in the passage from an investment to an innovation-based economy. The approach undertaken is prominently empirical. After a very brief description of the regulatory levels on the two sides of the Atlantic, we...
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This paper investigates how enforcement of labour regulation affects the firm's use of informal labour, firm size and … level, and administrative data on enforcement of regulation at the city level, we show that in areas where law enforcement … labour productivity. We control for different regional and firm characteristics, and we instrument enforcement with the …
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reconcile the conflicting primal and dual estimates of productivity growth over the period. …
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This paper examines the importance of buyer-supplier relationships, geography and the structure of the production network in firm performance. We develop a simple model where firms can outsource tasks and search for suppliers in different locations. Low search and outsourcing costs lead firms to...
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-size distribution? Do they affect individual city sizes? Do they contribute to the productivity advantage of large cities and the nature …
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The paper presents new stylized facts on the direction of capital flows. We find (i) international capital flows net of government debt and/or official aid are positively correlated with growth; (ii) sovereign debt flows are negatively correlated with growth only if debt is financed by another...
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The literature has shown that the implied welfare gains from international financial integration are very small. We revisit the existing findings and document that welfare gains can be substantial if capital goods are not perfect substitutes. We use a model of optimal savings that includes a...
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We investigate the roles of productivity and the specificity of inputs for the international sourcing strategy of firms … transaction. The dataset also provides information to estimate the firms' productivity and their intensity in relationship …
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In this paper I review the contribution of real business cycles models to our understanding of economic fluctuations, and discuss open issues in business cycle research.
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