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that are implicit in previous firm-level productivity estimation approaches. We use Belgian firms production data to …
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function, total factor productivity, price markups over marginal costs, output prices, output quantities, a demand system, and …
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How can a country improve the productivity growth in its business sector and reach its growth potential? Sweden during …
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This study uses a large firm-level data set covering more than 80 countries to explore the effects of firm-size, city-size, and government-size on perceived and experienced corruption. Four points summarize our main findings, which seem instructive and new. First, there is a broad structural...
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This study investigates boards of (non-executive) directors and whether employee representation has a positive effect on gender diversity on boards. We exploit rich, newly assembled board–director matched panel data for Norway and Germany, which contain unique information on whether a director...
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modernization investments, including ICT. The second part of the paper presents evidence on firms' productivity paths, and the … heterogeneity in productivity among relatively similar firms. I also present selected evidence of these firms' investments in … specific areas and how they affected their productivity. The observation of important intra-industry differences across …
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We introduce a novel method for measuring economic uncertainty at the firm, sector, and aggregate levels using sales volatility and validate it by comparison with existing macroeconomic uncertainty measures. We use Compustat firms data in the period 2000-2022 to construct our uncertainty...
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products with intermediate productivity. Shocks to trade costs and technology affect the endogenous decision to export or … produce abroad at the product-level and, in turn, the relative productivity between parents and affiliates. …
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function, total factor productivity, price markups over marginal costs, output prices, output quantities, a demand system, and …
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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...
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