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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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Gifted Kids or Pushy Parents? Foreign Acquisitions and Plant Performance in Indonesia
Arnold, Jens; Javorcik, Beata - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
foreign ownership and plant productivity. To control for the possible endogeneity of the FDI decision, a difference … context, is the ability to follow the timing of observed changes in productivity and other aspects of plant performance. The … results suggest that foreign ownership leads to significant productivity improvements in the acquired plants. The improvements …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791292
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213309
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Service Trade and Occupational Tasks: An Empirical Investigation
Ariu, Andrea; Mion, Giordano - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
Using micro data for Belgium we investigate the relationship between occupational tasks changes and the rise of service trade. We focus the analysis on the extensive margin and look at the heterogeneous proliferation of firms involved in exports and imports of services across sectors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084731
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Extensive and Intensive Growth in a Neoclassical Framework
Irmen, Andreas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
of factors of production, their (expected) relative price, and induces innovation investments. …
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Product and Process Innovation and Firms’ decision to Export
Vanbeveren, Ilke; Vandenbussche, Hylke - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
We analyze the relationship between firm-level innovation activities and firms’ propensity to start exporting for firms … in a small open economy. We measure innovation by innovative effort (R&D) as well as by innovative output (product and … process innovation). After carefully correcting for endogeneity and selection issues, the evidence points to firms self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468704
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Solow Residuals without Capital Stocks
Burda, Michael C; Severgnini, Battista - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
measurement error of the Solow residual (Solow 1957) as a measure of total factor productivity (TFP) growth when the capital stock …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008611015
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Factor Saving Innovation
Boldrin, Michele; Levine, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
conditions. The model provides a step toward a theory of endogenous innovation under conditions of perfect competition. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005114155
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Foreign Ownership and Productivity: New Evidence from the Service Sector and the R&D Lab
Griffith, Rachel; Redding, Stephen J.; Simpson, Helen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
This Paper examines the relationship between foreign ownership and productivity, paying particular attention to two … productivity than foreign multinationals, but the difference is less stark in the service sector than in the production sector, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124197
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Venture Capital and Industrial ''Innovation''
Hirukawa, Masayuki; Ueda, Masako - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
unprecedented growth. We then proceed to study if this positive impact of VC is also present on productivity growth, which is a … measure of innovation alternative to patent count. Unlike the impact on patent count, we do not find that VC investment … affects total factor productivity growth. We do find that VC investment is positively associated with labor productivity but …
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