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We establish that domestically owned firms in two alternative models of emerging market economies, the Czech Republic and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the distance of domestic firms to the frontier grew (in all...
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Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent alternative models of implementing development policies,...
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services. The link between these reforms and the productivity of manufacturing firms is examined using panel data for about 4 … significant positive effects on the productivity of manufacturing firms. Services reforms benefited both foreign and locally … index of services liberalization resulted in a productivity increase of 11.7 percent for domestic firms and 13.2 percent for …
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The literature on within-firm organizational change and productivity suggests that firms can make more efficient use of … technologies and that joint adoption leads to higher productivity. Without having introduced complementary organizational … innovations, the adoption of CO2 reducing technologies is associated with lower productivity. …
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Technological change can increase the productivity of the various factors of production in equal terms or it can be … biased towards a specific factor. We develop an estimator for production functions when productivity is multi-dimensional. We …
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efficiency. First, treatment firms have higher productivity and quality after accounting for rug specifications. Second, when …
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While innovation is argued to create value, private incentives of firms to innovate are driven by what part of the value created firms can appropriate. In this paper we explore the relation between innovation and the markups a firm is able to extract after innovating. We estimate firm-specific...
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the context of a postulated change in the rate of increase of total factor productivity, we show that the convergence …
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generating higher productivity. The UK government has been in th lead in providing incentives for profit-related pay, one … productivity. …
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foreign ownership and plant productivity. To control for the possible endogeneity of the FDI decision, a difference … context, is the ability to follow the timing of observed changes in productivity and other aspects of plant performance. The … results suggest that foreign ownership leads to significant productivity improvements in the acquired plants. The improvements …
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