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Discussion around total factor productivity gains for the Australian Economy often focuses on infrastructure … concrete case for improvement. In this paper we describe our approach to measuring management as a productivity driver in … internal stocks of intellectual assets are significantly related with higher productivity: our analysis predicts that a low …
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We expect trade liberalization to give rise to aggregate productivity gains, as the least efficient firms are forced … importance of intrinsic firm efficiency relative to input quality as sources of exporters’ productivity premium, employing a … matched employer-employee data set for Norwegian manufacturing. Augmented measures of total factor productivity which take …
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We utilize a unique database from a large legal services provider to examine how service quality responds to the firm's available capacity and workload, and to the nature of the firm-client relationship. We develop empirical measures of both the (internal) level of resources available to the...
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reconcile the conflicting primal and dual estimates of productivity growth over the period. …
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This paper examines the importance of buyer-supplier relationships, geography and the structure of the production network in firm performance. We develop a simple model where firms can outsource tasks and search for suppliers in different locations. Low search and outsourcing costs lead firms to...
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-size distribution? Do they affect individual city sizes? Do they contribute to the productivity advantage of large cities and the nature …
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productivity in the generation segment of the industry. Controlling explicitly for sources of price-heterogeneity across firms and …
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The paper presents new stylized facts on the direction of capital flows. We find (i) international capital flows net of government debt and/or official aid are positively correlated with growth; (ii) sovereign debt flows are negatively correlated with growth only if debt is financed by another...
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The literature has shown that the implied welfare gains from international financial integration are very small. We revisit the existing findings and document that welfare gains can be substantial if capital goods are not perfect substitutes. We use a model of optimal savings that includes a...
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We investigate the roles of productivity and the specificity of inputs for the international sourcing strategy of firms … transaction. The dataset also provides information to estimate the firms' productivity and their intensity in relationship …
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