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This paper reviews the scientific contributions of Paul Krugman to the study of international trade, on the occasion of his receipt of the 2008 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics.  A simplified exposition is presented of some of his principal findings, including: the effects of trade on firm...
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The labour productivity differentials between manufacturing firms in Ghana and South Korea exceed those implied by … and South Korea.  There is no significant difference in total factor productivity across the countries once we allow for … in the shape of the relationship between productivity and human capital across countries is crucial for understanding the …
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We use an online real-effort experiment to investigate how bonus-based pay and worker productivity interact with … bonuses makes them cheat more but has no effect on their productivity.  We also find that more productive workers behave more …
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joint ventures in general and I have large effects on productivity especially when combined with a technology transfer …
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'transmission bias' in firm-level studies, which arises from firms' reaction to unobservable productivity realisations when making …
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This paper exploits unique data that permits the matching of students` test scores in different subjects to the teachers that teach those subjects. Within-pupil (across-subject, rather than across-time) variation is used to examine whether the characteristics of different subject teachers are...
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In this paper data from a school survey in India is used to ask whether there is evidence for the payment of performance related pay and whether such pay structures do impact on student achievement. It is shown that - after controlling for student ability, parental background and the resources...
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as an explanatory variable in models of total factor productivity, investment and dividends. We find that takeover risk … has a positive and significant effect on subsequent productivity, a negative and significant effect on investment, and a … productivity, but has a negative and significant effect investment with a lag of two years, and a strongly positive effect on …
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Interconnections among financial institutions create potential channels for contagionand amplification of shocks to the financial system. Contagion occurs when a shock tothe assets of a single firm causes other firms to default through the network of obligations.We say that contagion is weak if...
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industry which depends on fundamentals. In industries with fewer competitors than the critical level, there is productivity …. Above this critical number of competitors, efficient firms price to drive the high cost firms from the market: productivity … of these results are in close keeping with, and provide an explanation for empirical results showing productivity …
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