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Productivity and Firm Boundaries
Kohler, Wilhelm - 2018
), 552-80, to derive a new prediction regarding how the productivity of a firm affects its choice between vertical … robust firm-level evidence from Spain showing that, in line with our prediction, the effect of productivity works more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908704
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Taxes, Incorporation, and Productivity
Barro, Robert J. - 2019
the 1980s. C-corporate form is subject to a time varying tax wedge, which offsets the productivity benefits. In a … (productivity), the share of total output generated by C-corporations, and the sensitivity of this share to the tax wedge. This … in the tax wedge since 1968 has expanded economy-wide productivity by about 4% …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892096
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Firms and Economic Performance : A View from Trade
Bonfiglioli, Alessandra - 2019
We use transaction-level US import data to compare firms from virtually all countries in the world competing in a single destination market. Guided by a simple theoretical framework, we decompose countries. market shares into the contribution of the number of firm-products, their average...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892143
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Incorporation and Productivity
Barro, Robert J. - 2019
Corporate versus pass-through status trades off productivity benefits (related to perpetual identity, limited liability … productivity (TFP) and corporate shares of economic activity, implies that, for 1958-2013, the declining wedge and gap between … corporate and pass-through productivity contributed 0.37% per year out of the total TFP growth rate of 1.09% per year. From 1994 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012860291
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Growing like China : firm performance and global production line position
Chor, Davin; Manova, Kalina; Yu, Zhihong - 2020 - Version of August, 2020
firms position themselves in global production lines and how this evolves with productivity and performance over the firm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012501399
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Efficient Level of Seps Licensing
Langus, Gregor; Lipatov, Vilen - 2022
We study the question whether a holder of standard essential patents (SEPs) should be allowed to choose the level in the value chain at which to offer a FRAND license to its SEPs. We give a pos-itive answer to this question for two reasons. First, the SEP holder and the social planner tend to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013300871
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Do entrepreneurs matter?
Becker, Sascha O.; Hvide, Hans K. - 2013
In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291523
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Corporate Acquisitions and Firm-Level Uncertainty : Domestic versus Cross-Border Deals
Bai, Ye - 2020
This paper studies the impact of corporate acquisitions - both domestic and cross-border - on the uncertainty faced by acquiring firms. We use data for UK publicly-listed firms from 2004 to 2017 and employ a matching estimator combined with difference-in-differences to control for the endogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012841927
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Trade Costs in Services : Firm Survival, Firm Growth and Implied Changes in Employment
Christen, Elisabeth M. - 2020
This paper provides new insight into the firm-level employment impacts of trade cost changes at the industry level in the Austrian services sector. We apply a two-part model of firm survival (exit) and firm growth. Separate regressions for firm entry rates at the industry-region level complete...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012844212
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Trust and Workplace Performance
Addison, John T. - 2019
’s assessment of the economic or financial situation of the workplace and its relative labor productivity. Trust is initially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012889231