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Productivity Growth and the Structure of the Business Cycle
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992
advantage of the possibility of intertemporal subsitution in order to engage in productivity-improving activities during … productivity, both in the short and long run, and the short-run impact is stronger in those countries where fluctuations are more …
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How Does Investing in Cheap Labour Countries Affect Performance at Home? France and Italy
Barba Navaretti, Giorgio; Castellani, Davide; Disdier, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
countries have essentially scale effects which eventually trickle down on employment and productivity at home. …
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Investments Abroad and Performance at Home: Evidence from Italian Multinationals
Barba Navaretti, Giorgio; Castellani, Davide - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
total factor productivity and output. It also finds no significant effects on employment. These results support the view …
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The Impact of Trade on Organization and Productivity
Caliendo, Lorenzo; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
A firm's productivity depends on how production is organized given the level of demand for its product. To capture this … theory, heterogeneity in demand leads to heterogeneity in productivity and other firms' outcomes. We use the theory to … and will decentralize decisions. The new organization of the average exporter results in higher productivity, although the …
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Efficiency and Market Share in the Hungarian Corporate Sector
Halpern, László; Kõrösi, Gábor - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
One of the major tasks facing a transition economy is to create the competitive environment of a properly functioning market economy. It is widely believed that competition has a positive effect on efficiency, but the theoretical and empirical support is quite scarce. The objective of this paper...
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Enterprise Break-ups and Performance During the Transition
Lizal, Lubomir; Singer, Miroslav; Svejnar, Jan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
This paper estimates the effects of the 1991 breakups of Czechoslovak state-owned enterprises (SOEs) on subsequent performance of the master enterprises and the spin-off units. The analysis is based on quarterly and annual data of Czechoslovak industrial enterprises. We estimate the performance...
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The Impact of Consulting Services on Small and Medium Enterprises: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Mexico
Bruhn, Miriam; Karlan, Dean S.; Schoar, Antoinette S - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
sales went up by about 80 percent; similarly, profits and productivity increased by 120 percent compared to the control …
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Do entrepreneurs matter?
Becker, Sascha O.; Hvide, Hans K - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and...
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Hoping to Win, Expected to Lose: Theory and Lessons on Micro Enterprise Development
Karlan, Dean S.; Knight, Ryan; Udry, Christopher - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
Many basic economic theories with perfectly functioning markets do not predict the existence of the vast number of microenterprises readily observed across the world. We put forward a model that illuminates why financial and managerial capital constraints may impede experimentation, and thus...
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On the Welfare State Performance in the European Union
Coelli, Tim; Lefebvre, Mathieu; Perelman, Sergio; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
In this paper we use data on five social inclusion indicators (poverty, inequality, unemployment, education and health) to assess and compare the performance of 27 European welfare states (EU27) in 2008. Aggregate measures of performance are obtained using index number methods similar to those...
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