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Imports and TFP at the Firm Level: The Role of Absorptive Capacity
Augier, Patricia; Cadot, Olivier; Dovis, Marion - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
This paper estimates the effect of the decision to import intermediate goods and capital equipment on Total Factor Productivity (TFP) at the firm level on a panel of Spanish firms covering the period between 1991 and 2002. We use two alternative approaches. In the first, we estimate TFP using...
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A Global View of Cross-Border Migration
di Giovanni, Julian; Levchenko, Andrei A.; Ortega, Francesc - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
difference, international trade, remittances, and a heterogeneous workforce. We compare welfare under the observed levels of … flows -- such as Jamaica or El Salvador -- are also better off due to migration, but for a different reason: remittances … about 10% in countries with large incoming remittances. Our results are robust to accounting for imperfect transferability …
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Weathering the crisis and beyond: Perspectives for the Euro Area
Schmidt, Christoph M; Weigert, Benjamin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
The euro area is experiencing a severe and highly complex crisis. It comprises three problem areas, the difficulties of some highly indebted European sovereigns to ascertain funding at palatable cost, the disconcerting fragility of the European banking system and disappointing growth prospects...
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Asymmetry of Information within Family Networks
De Weerdt, Joachim; Genicot, Garance; Mesnard, Alice - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
This paper studies asymmetry of information and transfers within a unique data set of 712 extended family networks from Tanzania. Using cross-reports on asset holdings, we construct measures of misperception of income among all pairs of households belonging to the same network. We show that...
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Can Production Subsidies Foster Export Activity? Evidence from Chinese Firm Level Data
Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger; Yu, Zhihong - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Using a unique firm level data set from the Chinese manufacturing sector, this paper analyses the impact of production subsidies on firms’ export performance. It documents robust evidence that production subsidies stimulate export activity, although this effect is conditional on firm...
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Globalization, De-Industrialization and Mexican Exceptionalism 1750-1879
Galvarriato, Aurora Gómez; Gonzales, Rafael Dobado; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Like the rest of the poor periphery, Mexico had to deal with de-industrialization forces between 1750 and 1913, those critical 150 years when the economic gap between the industrial core and the primary-product-producing periphery widened to such huge dimensions. Yet, from independence to...
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Powerful Women: Does Exposure Reduce Bias?
Beaman, Lori; Chattopadhyay, Raghabendra; Duflo, Esther; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
We exploit random assignment of gender quotas across Indian village councils to investigate whether having a female chief councillor affects public opinion towards female leaders. Villagers who have never been required to have a female leader prefer male leaders and perceive hypothetical female...
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Expanding Microenterprise Credit Access: Using Randomized Supply Decisions to Estimate the Impacts in Manila
Karlan, Dean S.; Zinman, Jonathan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
Microcredit seeks to promote business growth and improve well-being by expanding access to credit. We use a field experiment and follow-up survey to measure impacts of a credit expansion for microentrepreneurs in Manila. The effects are diffuse, heterogeneous, and surprising. Although there is...
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Industrial Catching Up in the Poor Periphery 1870-1975
Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper documents industrial output and labor productivity growth around the poor periphery 1870-1975 (Latin America, the European periphery, the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia). Intensive and extensive industrial growth accelerated there over this critical century. The...
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Whither Corruption? A Quantitative Survey of the Literature on Corruption and Growth
Campos, Nauro F; Dimova, Ralitza; Saleh, Ahmad - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
Does corruption grease or sand the wheels of economic growth? This paper uses meta-analysis techniques to systematically evaluate the evidence addressing this question. It uses a data set comprising 460 estimates of the effect of corruption on growth from 41 empirical studies. We find that the...
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