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Off-Shoring and Productivity Growth in the Italian Manufacturing Industries
Daveri, Francesco; Jona-Lasinio, Cecilia - CESifo - 2008
We study the relation between the off-shoring of intermediates and services and productivity growth in the Italian manufacturing industries in 1995-2003. Our results indicate that the off-shoring of intermediates within the same industry (“narrow off-shoring”) is beneficial for productivity...
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Organized Crime and Foreign Direct Investment: The Italian Case
Daniele, Vittorio; Marani, Ugo - CESifo - 2008
) inflows into Italy. The incidence of crime has been calculated considering the number of complaints for different crimes. The …
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Spatial Concentration of Manufacturing Firms in China
Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Zhao, Zhao - CESifo - 2014
firms in China. Using a unique and detailed dataset on manufacturing firms in China, we are able to follow the changes in … location patterns of firms between 2002 and 2008. Our analysis shows that firms in China are more localized than in the UK or … state-owned firms. Our findings are consistent with the notion that China is increasingly liberalizing its economy, enabling …
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Credit Constraints and FDI Spillovers in China
Agarwal, Natasha; Milner, Chris; Riaño, Alejandro - CESifo - 2013
This paper examines whether credit constraints affect Chinese firms’ absorption of productivity spillovers from foreign firms. Using firm-level data for 2001-2005, we find evidence of positive spillovers originating from FDI from countries other than Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan for non-state...
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The Lure of Authority: Motivation and Incentive Effects of Power
Fehr, Ernst; Herz, Holger; Wilkening, Tom - CESifo - 2012
Authority and power permeate political, social, and economic life, but empirical knowledge about the motivational origins and consequences of authority is limited. We study the motivation and incentive effects of authority experimentally in an authority-delegation game. Individuals often retain...
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The Role of Bounded Rationality and Imperfect Information in Subgame Perfect Implementation - An Empirical Investigation
Aghion, Philippe; Fehr, Ernst; Holden, Richard; … - CESifo - 2015
In this paper we conduct a laboratory experiment to test the extent to which Moore and Repullo’s subgame perfect implementation mechanism induces truth-telling in practice, both in a setting with perfect information and in a setting where buyers and sellers face a small amount of uncertainty...
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Team Production, Gender Diversity, and Male Courtship Behavior
Siemens, Ferdinand von - CESifo - 2015
This theoretical paper explores the impact of gender diversity on team production. The key assumption is that men derive utility from signaling high ability to female colleagues. The analysis shows that some gender diversity maximizes expected team production if (i) men and women have similar...
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Community Enterprises - An Institutional Innovation
Frey, Bruno S.; Lüthi, Roger; Osterloh, Margit - CESifo - 2011
Management research has long focused on the theory of the firm, studying for-profit organizations that produce privately owned resources based on central authority and within well-defined boundaries. In recent times, a new kind of enterprise has emerged that we call Community Enterprises. They...
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Divide and Privatize: Firm Break-up and Performance
Kocenda, Evžen; Hanousek, Jan - CESifo - 2011
We analyze the long-term effects of firm break-up and ownership change on corporate performance. Our analysis is based on a unique data set for a large number of Czech firms spanning the period 1996–2005. We employ a propensity score matching procedure to deal with endogeneity problems. Our...
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Property Rights, Optimal Public Enforcement, and Growth
Irmen, Andreas; Kuehnel, Johanna - CESifo - 2011
We study the link between public enforcement of property rights, innovation investments, and economic growth in an endogenous growth framework with an expanding set of product varieties. We find that a government may assure positive equilibrium growth through public employment in the enforcement...
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