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markets explain both productivity differences and firm density. Estimating structural model parameters is simple and relies on … model, we find that labor markets which provide cost advantages explain substantial differences in firm productivity …
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We investigate the causal relationship between judicial efficiency and firm size across Italian municipalities, exploiting spatial discontinuities in tribunals' jurisdiction for identification. Results show that halving the length of civil proceedings, average firm size would increase by around...
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This paper traces the time series (?Growth of Firms?) tradition in the study of market structure and looks at how recent studies on entry and the size distribution of firms have modified thinking in this area.
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is determined by the market structure chosen to endogenise the divergence. The magnitude of the subsidy in all models is …
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Background Although most community-based health insurance (CBHI) schemes are voluntary, problem of adverse selection is hardly studied. Evidence on the impact of targeted subsidies on adverse selection is completely missing. This paper investigates adverse selection in a CBHI scheme in Burkina...
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Although many of today's ecological, climatic and socio-economic problems seem unprecedented, similar events have occurred in the past. Western Europe's 'middle ages' (circa 11 to 14th century) may be one such case. By the 12th century, medieval Europe had shifted from the subsistence agrarian...
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With over a billion people in China, the issue of cultivated land conversion is extremely important both in terms of …, environment, and food security in China; and seeks to identity the main challenges facing China in terms of arable land protection … security, and suggests that comprehensive, human-centred and sustainable land governance is required to enhance China’s food …
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remained inadequate. Some country programmes, in particular China and Brazil, have been successful through the progress they …
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We examine the driving forces behind farmers’ decisions to adapt to climate change, and the impact of adaptation on farmers’ food production. We investigate whether there are differences in the food production functions of farm households that adapted and those that did not adapt. We...
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John Van Reenen sketches the evolution of CEP research on the drivers of productivity growth - and its impact on …
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