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La productividad en la industria española: Evidencia microeconómica

Huergo, Elena; Moreno, Lourdes - EconWPA - 2005

El objetivo de este trabajo es ofrecer una revisión de las principales regularidades que, desde una óptica microeconómica, se han observado en los trabajos que analizan la evolución de la productividad y los determinantes de su crecimiento en la economía española durante las últimas...

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On the Nature of the Corrupt Firm: Where to Situate Liability?

Seubert, Raphaela - EconWPA - 2005

Applying the modern Property Rights Approach to depict employment and firm-internal delegation relationships, this paper addresses the question how to prevent corporate bribery. The analysis and the answers that follow take into account interaction effects between firm-internal delegation...

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ICT productivity and firm propensity to innovative investment: learning effect evidence from italina micro data

Atzeni, Gianfranco Enrico; Carboni, Oliviero Antonio - EconWPA - 2005

introduction). However, what really matters in explaining ICT productivity is the level of innovation the new capital embodies. In …

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The Inequality of Influence

Hellman, Joel; Kaufmann, Daniel - EconWPA - 2003

This paper develops a proxy measure of the inequality of influence on the basis of survey evidence from 2002 Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) conducted among 6,500 firms in 27 transition countries. We refer to the resulting inequality as crony bias in the political...

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Far From Home: Do Foreign Investors Import Higher Standards of Governance in Transition Economies?

Hellman, Joel S.; Jones, Geraint; Kaufmann, Daniel - EconWPA - 2003

Based on the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) of firms in transition countries, which unbundles corruption to measure different types of corrupt transactions and provide detailed information on the characteristics and performance of firms, we find that: i)...

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Child Labor and Fertility

Schrepler, Ramona - EconWPA - 2003

This essay analyzes the economic causes and effects of household decisions concerning fertility, education and child labor when children can supplement family income early in life and must support their parents in old age as adults. Parents, who raise and educate children for both financial and...

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Innovation, Market Structure and Economic Growth

Palma, Nuno Pedro Gonçalves - EconWPA - 2004

This paper presents a dynamic partial equilibrium model that endogenizes firms' investment decision on innovation …: product innovation causes horizontal expansion growth, and process innovation causes vertical expansion growth. Market … structure in different markets emerges as a consequence of different investment on innovation opportunities. Main variables that …

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