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Using a stochastic frontier model and a comprehensive dataset, we study factors that affect corporate efficiency in … efficiency, and (iii) high competition is less conductive to efficiency than moderate or low competition. In terms of ownership …, we find that (iv) efficiency increases when a majority owner must deal with minority shareholders and that (v) domestic …
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plants exist. The results indicate that divestment is associated with a drop in total factor productivity accompanied by a …
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Do firms have the right incentives to innovate in the presence of productivity spillovers? This paper proposes an …-term wage contracts with their workers, productivity spillovers are fully internalized. If firms cannot commit to long-term wage …
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States in terms of unemployment, productivity growth and wage inequality. To show this, we construct two fictitious economies … productivity grows less due to larger mismatch. The model can be used to address a number of normative issues. …
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Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in … privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier … find that privatization to domestic owners did not markedly improve the efficiency of firms; domestic firms are not …
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The paper develops a forward-looking comprehensive accounting framework for the public sector. By integrating the public sector budget constraint forward in time the government's present value budget constraint (PVBC) is obtained. In addition to the familiar financial assets and liabilities,...
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This paper evaluates the contribution of seigniorage and implicit taxation of financial intermediation to the financing of the budget deficits in Spain and Portugal during the 1980s. The paper starts with a simple partial equilibrium model of the banking sector, which is used to derive two sets...
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In this paper, the authors describe a simulation model for analyzing the effects of macroeconomic policies in the OECD on global macroeconomic equilibrium. Particular attention is paid to the effects on developing countries of alternative mixes of monetary and fiscal policies in the OECD. Though...
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If a nation fails to satisfy its intertemporal budget constraint (IBC) then, like a government or a household, either it will become insolvent or it can consume more of its income. The main purpose of this paper is to establish necessary and sufficient conditions for a nation to satisfy its IBC,...
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worker productivity, what the team basis of the scheme implies, and the impact of the differential measurement precision. We …
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