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Does ownership affect firms' efficiency? : panel data evidence in Italy
Bottasso, Anna; Sembenelli, Alessandro - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011598238
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Property rights, optimal public enforcement, and growth
Irmen, Andreas; Kuehnel, Johanna - 2011
We study the link between public enforcement of property rights, innovation investments, and economic growth in an endogenous growth framework with an expanding set of product varieties. We find that a government may assure positive equilibrium growth through public employment in the enforcement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280647
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Estimating the value of oil capital in a small open economy : the Venezuela's example
Aniyar, Sara - 2003
The paper focuses in the calculation of the oil capital value in a small open economy depending on oil rents. The Venezuelan case is used as an example. In valuing the oil capital, two issues are recalled and discussed: how should the exploration costs and the capital gains be treated? It is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011593022
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Do investments in specialized knowledge lead to composite good industries?
Soubeyran, Antoine; Stahn, Hubert - 2002
There are more and more industries in which firms are specialized in the production of a component of the final good. This is especially true in high-tech industries. The basic question is why don't these firms merge? We paradoxically show that industries which are typical candidates for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596910
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Pyramid capitalism : cronyism, regulation, and firm productivity in Egypt
Diwan, Ishac; Keefer, Philip; Schiffbauer, Marc - 2016
Using a large, original database of 385 politically connected firms under the Mubarak regime in Egypt, we document for the first time the negative impact of cronyism on economic growth. In the early 2000s, a policy shift in Egypt led to the expansion of crony activities into new, previously...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011544875
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What explains the productivity decline in manufacturing in the nineties in India?
Ray, Saon - 2014
This paper uses the data envelopment analysis (DEA) based Malmquist productivity index to estimate total factor … productivity growth (TFPG), technical change, and efficiency change for a panel of firms during the period 1991 to 2001 in 26 … Indian manufacturing industries. The paper then analyses the factors explaining productivity growth, technical change and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010437777
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Direct and spillover effects of agricultural technology adoption programs : experimental evidence from the Dominican Republic
Aramburu, Julián; Garone, Lucas Figal; Maffioli, Alessandro - 2019
Technology (PATCA II) implemented in the Dominican Republic. The program aimed to increase the agricultural productivity and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012028598
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Productivity analysis by using firm-level data : the case of Macedonia
Jovanovic, Biljana - 2018
Productivity, the efficiency by which firms convert inputs into output is central concept in growth related discussions …. This research is focused on analyzing productivity on a sample of Macedonian firms. The goal is twofold - first, to … construct productivity indicators by using firm-level data, with special focus to construction of total factor productivity (TFP …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011914145
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Import Competition, Heterogeneous Preferences of Managers, and Productivity
Chen, Cheng; Steinwender, Claudia - 2019
may then force managers to improve the productivity of the firm in order to ensure survival. While this hypothesis has … competition shocks. We find that import competition leads to productivity increases in family-managed firms that are initially … unproductive. Productivity improvements are driven by family management as opposed to family ownership or non-managing family …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179827
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Import Competition, Heterogeneous Preferences of Managers, and Productivity
Chen, Cheng - 2020
may then force managers to improve the productivity of the firm in order to ensure survival. While this hypothesis has … competition shocks. We find that import competition leads to productivity increases in family-managed firms that are initially … unproductive. Productivity improvements are driven by family management as opposed to family ownership or non-managing family …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843433