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Experience, Innovation and Productivity - Empirical Evidence from Italy's Slowdown

Daveri, Francesco; Parisi, Maria Laura - CESifo - 2010

We investigate the role of workers’ and managerial experience as a determinant of firm innovation and productivity in a sample of Italian manufacturing firms. A high share of temporary – thus un-experienced - workers is associated to low innovation and productivity. The effect of managerial...

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Adjustment Costs, Inventories and Output

Danziger, Leif - CESifo - 2008

This paper analyzes the optimal adjustment strategy of an inventory-holding firm facing price- and quantity-adjustment costs in an inflationary environment. The model nests both the original menu-cost model that allows production to be costlessly adjusted, and the later model that includes...

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Estimating Production Functions When Productivity Change is Endogenous

Muendler, Marc-Andreas - CESifo - 2004

Production function estimation with micro-data shows that a persistent unobserved variable varies within firm or plant … over time but resists treatment and may cause biases. This paper presents an estimation model of the firm under endogenous …-effects estimation and remedying commonly suspected biases. Whereas productivity change is measured consistently, scale economies are not …

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Offshoring along the Production Chain

Harms, Philipp; Lorz, Oliver; Urban, Dieter M. - CESifo - 2009

Recent contributions on offshoring often assume that firms can freely split their production process into separate steps which can be ranked according to the cost savings from producing abroad. We replace this assumption by the notion of a technologically determined sequence of production steps....

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Productivity, Price- and Wage-Markups: An Empirical Analysis of the Dutch Manufacturing Industry

Amoroso, Sara; Melenberg, Bertrand; Plasmans, Joseph; … - CESifo - 2015

different estimation techniques that have been tackling the endogeneity issues concerning the simultaneity, the omitted output …

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How economic growth reduces poverty : a general equilibrium analysis for Indonesia

Fane, George (contributor); Warr, Peter George (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Education is good for the poor : a note on Dollar and Kraay (2001)

Gundlach, Erich (contributor); … - 2001 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Anthropometric Dividends of Czechoslovakia's Break Up

Costa-i-Font, Joan; Kossarova, Lucia - CESifo - 2014

Processes of transition to democracy and country break up stand out as ideal experiments to estimate the impact of wide … psycho-social environments, which improve with democracy. We analyzed a unique dataset containing individual heights in the … Czech Republic and Slovakia to measure the retrospective well-being effects of the two transitions to liberal democracy and …

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Democracy, Inequality and the Environment when Citizens can Mitigate Privately or Act Collectively

Bernard, Sophie; Hotte, Louis; Winer, Stanley L. - CESifo - 2010

We study the political economy of the environment in autocratic, weak and strong democracies when individuals can either mitigate the health consequences of domestic pollution privately or reduce pollution collectively through public policy. The setting is that of a small open economy in which...

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Soft Paternalism, Merit Goods, and Normative Individualism

Kirchgässner, Gebhard - CESifo - 2014

Paternalism is an attempt to influence individuals’ decisions for their own benefit, even if there are no third parties involved. This seems to contradict normative individualism, which provides the general orientation to our modern democracies. Soft or libertarian paternalism accepts the...

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