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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 …
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Productivity Growth and the Structure of the Business Cycle
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992
Over recent years `opportunity cost' (OC) models of growth have been constructed which suggest that firms take advantage of the possibility of intertemporal subsitution in order to engage in productivity-improving activities during recessions. This paper tests whether this argument is correct,...
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Efficiency and Market Share in the Hungarian Corporate Sector
Halpern, László; Kõrösi, Gábor - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
Hungarian corporate sector during various phases of the transition process. We employ frontier production functions for … production functions indicate a gradual improvement in efficiency and a shift from decreasing to increasing returns to scale due …
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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
We test whether managerial human capital has a first order effect on the performance and growth of small enterprises in emerging markets. In a randomized control trial in Puebla, Mexico, we randomly assigned 150 out of 432 small and medium size enterprises to receive subsidized consulting...
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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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Adjustment and Performance of the Textile and Clothing Industry in the Czech Republic, Poland and Portugal
Benacek, Vladimir; Caban, Wieslaw; Corado, Cristina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995
contribution of the new, private firms in the Czech Republic to find that production and employment in the clothing industry …
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Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints
Karlan, Dean S.; Osei, Robert; Osei-Akoto, Isaac; Udry, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
leads to significantly larger agricultural investment and riskier production choices in agriculture. The salient constraint … to farmer investment is uninsured risk: when provided with insurance against the primary catastrophic risk they face … basis risk associated with the index insurance, and with imperfect trust that promised payouts will be delivered. …
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A Search Model of Optimal Pricing and Production
Alpern, Steve; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1988
and production decisions. We show how this methodology can be used to determine an optimal sequence of price …. We compare and contrast the high-low model with the conventional microeconomic model of pricing and production. We show … how the firm uses its pricing and production decisions to partition the uncertainty interval it faces and thereby …
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