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Misallocation in Firm Production: A Nonparametric Analysis Using Procurement Lotteries
Carrillo, Paul; Donaldson, Dave; Pomeranz, Dina; … - 2023
How costly is the misallocation of production that we might expect to result from distortions such as market power …, incomplete contracts, taxes, regulations, or corruption? This paper develops new tools for the study of misallocation that place … misallocation and to quantify the welfare losses that it causes. We then consider an application in which thousands of firms …
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The devil is in the shadow :do institutions affect income and productivity or only official income and official productivity?
Dreher, Axel; Méon, Pierre-Guillaume; Schneider, … - 2007
This paper assesses the relationship between institutions, output, and productivity, when official output is corrected for the size of the shadow economy. Our results confirm the usual positive impact of institutional quality on official output and total factor productivity, and its negative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276603
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The Bounty of the Sea and Long-Run Development
Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Knudsen, Anne Sofie B.; Selaya, Pablo - 2015
? Whereas this question has been explored from the point of view of agriculture, remarkably little attention has been paid to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388201
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Diversifying and Benchmarking Madagascar
Gylfason, Thorvaldur; Nganou, Jean-Pascal N. - 2024
Because excessive specialization can be risky, diversification matters for sustainable development. A case study of Madagascar, this paper begins by briefly discussing economic and institutional diversification and presenting a simple model of production possibilities to illuminate the possible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015096936
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Does Climate Change Make Foodgrain Yields More Unpredictable? Evidence from India
Verma, Saumya; Gupta, Shreekant; Sen, Partha - 2020
How would climate change affect India's agriculture which accounts for sixty percent of employment? We study the impact …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207926
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Productivity and the decision to import and export: theory and evidence
Kasahara, Hiroyuki; Lapham, Beverly - 2008
This paper develops an open economy model with heterogeneous final goods producers who simultaneously choose whether to export their goods and whether to use imported intermediates. The model highlights mechanisms whereby import policies affect aggregate productivity, resource allocation, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264319
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Do cost-sharing and entry deregulation curb pharmaceutical Innovation?
Grossmann, Volker - 2011
This paper examines the role of both cost-sharing schemes in health insurance systems and entry regulation for pharmaceutical R&D expenditure, drug prices, aggregate productivity, and income. The analysis suggests that both an increase in the coinsurance rate and stricter price regulations...
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Monopsony Makes Firms Not Only Small but Also Unproductive: Why East-Germany Has Not Converged
Bachmann, Ruediger; Bayer, Christian; Stüber, Heiko; … - 2022
When employers face a trade-off between growing large and paying low wages—that is, when they have monopsony power—some productive employers will decide to acquire fewer customers, forgo sales, and remain small. These decisions have adverse consequences for aggregate labor productivity....
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Do Multinationals Transfer Culture? Evidence on Female Employment in China
Tang, Heiwai; Zhang, Yifan - 2017
We study the global diffusion of culture through multinationals, focusing on gender norms. Using data on manufacturing firms in China over 2004-2007, we find that foreign affiliates from countries with a more gender-equal culture tend to employ proportionally more women and appoint female...
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Do Firms Mitigate or Magnify Capital Misallocation? Evidence from Planet-Level Data
Kehrig, Matthias; Vincent, Nicolas - 2017
hence not a symptom of misallocation within the firm, but rather actions taken by the firm to mitigate external credit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011657122