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Can a Tiger Change Its Stripes? Reform of Chinese State-Owned Enterprises in the Penumbra of the State

Harrison, Ann - 2019

there are clear improvements in performance post-privatization. The tiger can change its stripes; however, the government …

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Insider Privatization and Careers - A Study of a Russian Firm in Transition

Friebel, Guido - 2007

We study how transition has affected human resource policies of a Russian heavy industry firm. Our data set contains personnel files of 1538 white-collar workers over 17 years: from 1984 to 2000. We find career paths before the first year of Gaidar's reforms, 1992, when Russian transition to a...

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Powering Work from Home

Cicala, Steve - 2020

This paper documents an increase in residential electricity consumption while industrial and commercial consumption has fallen during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Hourly smart meter data from Texas reveals how daily routines changed during the pandemic, with usage during weekdays...

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Measuring Aggregate Productivity Growth Using Plant-Level Data

Petrin, Amil - 2005

We define aggregate productivity growth as the change in aggregate final demand minus the change in the aggregate cost of primary inputs. We show how to aggregate plant-level data to this measure and how to use plant-level data to decompose our measure into technical efficiency and reallocation...

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Agglomeration Economies and Race Specific Spillovers

Ananat, Elizabeth Oltmans; Fu, Shihe; Ross, Stephen L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Racial social isolation within and across workplaces may reduce firm productivity. We provide descriptive evidence that African-Americans feel socially isolated from Whites. To test whether isolation affects productivity, we estimate models of Total Factor Productivity for manufacturing firms...

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Augmenting the Human Capital Earnings Equation with Measures of Where People Work

Barth, Erling - 2016

We augment standard ln earnings equations with variables reflecting unmeasured attributes of workers and measured and unmeasured attributes of their employer. Using panel employee-establishment data for US manufacturing we find that the observable employer characteristics that most impact...

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Local Industrial Structures and Female Entrepreneurship in India

Ghani, Ejaz - 2011

We analyze the spatial determinants of female entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. We focus on the presence of incumbent female-owned businesses and their role in promoting higher subsequent female entrepreneurship relative to male entrepreneurship. We find...

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Determinants of Privatization Prices

Lopez-de-Silane, Florencio - 1996

Generating government revenue is a common objective in privatization. This paper asks: what determines privatization … actions prior to privatization. The data, gathered from primary sources, encompass 361 privatized Mexican companies in 49 four …-digit industry codes. The determinants of auction privatization prices are divided into three groups: (1) company performance and …

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The Anatomy of Cyber Risk

Jamilov, Rustam; Rey, Hélène; Tahoun, Ahmed - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We construct novel text-based measures of firm-level cyber risk exposure based on quarterly earnings calls of 12,000+ firms from 85 countries over 20+ years. We categorize each cyber-related discussion into topics that capture sentiment, monetary loss, country names, etc. We document new facts...

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Measuring Firm Activity from Outer Space

Bilicka, Katarzyna A.; Seidel, André - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

To understand how global firm networks operate, we need consistent information on their activities, unbiased by their reporting choices. In this paper, we collect a novel dataset on the light that factories emit at night for a large sample of car manufacturing plants. We show that nightlight...

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