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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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Property Rights, Optimal Public Enforcement, and Growth
Irmen, Andreas; Kuehnel, Johanna - CESifo - 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/10009386354
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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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Global Sourcing of Complex Production Processes
Schwarz, Christian - 2011
We develop a theory of a firm in an incomplete contracts environment which decides on its complexity, organization, and global scale. Specifically, the firm decides i) how thinly it wants to slice its production process by choosing the mass of symmetric intermediate inputs that are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120903
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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
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The International Organization of Production in the Regulatory Void
Herkenhoff, Philipp - 2020
In recent decades, a large and increasing number of leading firms in a diverse set of industries have faced allegations of ‘unethical' practices along their international value chains. In many cases this has triggered consumer boycotts and NGO campaigns, introducing a new link between upstream...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012852396
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Public R&D Support and Firms' Performance - A Panel Data Study
Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Raknerud, Arvid; Iancu, Diana-Cristina - 2018
return to total assets or productivity for firms who received support compared with the control group. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011887391
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Decentralized Environmental Regulations and Plant-Level Productivity
Ghosal, Vivek; Stephan, Andreas; Weiss, Jan F. - 2018
Using a unique plant-level dataset we examine total factor productivity (TFP) growth and its components, related to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932005
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Foreign Ownership and Skillbiased Technological Change
Koch, Michael; Smolka, Marcel - 2018
upgrading in foreign-acquired firms. We reveal substantial productivity gains within foreign-acquired firms and we show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932082
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Unraveling Firms: Demand, Productivity and Markups Heterogeneity
Forlani, Emanuele; Martin, Ralf; Mion, Giordano; Muls, … - 2016
that are implicit in previous firm-level productivity estimation approaches. We use Belgian firms production data to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431264